This is an analysis of the poem Pilgrimage In Search Of Do-Well that begins with:

Thus y-robed in russet . romed I aboute
Al in a somer seson . for to seke Do-wel;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXaXbaaXXaXcdefXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXgXXgXXXXhXXXXXXciXXiXXXXhXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXgXXXXegXXXfaXXXXXXXXXgXXXajjXgXXfXXhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 127,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010110 100101010111 1101101111 01011111111 111110010111 11011111111 101101111 101010111111 1000101011 1100100111110 11011001110 011101110111 111110110100 110100111110 110101101101010 110100110101 11111101111 1001101011010 11011111101100 10111011100100 1111010011010 101010110010 11110111101110 11111101111000 10111100111 1010110101010 11111101011 1101001110110 1010010111111 110100110011 01101010110 1001100101101 1111011110011 11101111111100 101110101011001 011001001101 1100111010010 1101010111111 010010001110110 0100011100110 11101101010 010100110110001 110011011011 10011011010 11101111111110 11010010011101 111010111011 110101111001 10111101110 1010111111 11111101010 1111010101110 110111101001010 011000101010 111111111001 1011110111110 1111101111001110 11011111111110 110111111110 1111111110 111110111010 1111111011 10100110101 100101101 11001010110101 010100101001 10101011101 0100010111 11010101111 01111111010 11111111 110111111110 1111111110 111111111 11110101111110 10111111011 1111101111010 1111111101011 11110111101 1101001100110 1100111100101010 10100010101010 101101110011110 11111111111 1011101110001 11011101110 01010100110111 10110011110 1101001111110 10100101110010 11000111010 100100100011010100 110010001101 1010110111110 11001111001001 010111101111 01011100101010 110101001101 11111110011100 01100101011 101111111011 110111101010 110111111001110 11111111101 10100101011 10101110110 111011111100 1101111111 111001111011001 11111111101010 11111111111 1011111110100 111111110 100011111010 10101011110 1111110110 11110100111010 100101011 1111100101010 1111110110 111110010010 1111111111011 110111110 11111111101 1011101111 11010111001111 1101111100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6671
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1279
  • Amount of lines: 127
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, thei, and, ', he, that, thi, to, his, best, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.

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