This is an analysis of the poem The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 01 that begins with:

What this mountaigne bymeneth and the merke dale
And the feld ful of folk, I shal yow faire shewe. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbXcXXXXX XXXXbXXXXXdXXXXXeXXfXgXXXXXaXX XXXXXXXadXXXXXXXXXfXXXaXXXdddXX XXXbXXXXhXXgXXeXXXXXXXXXXXfXXX dXdXgdXXXhXggXXXXXXfXXXXXX fXXXeXXXeXXXXXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXgXX cXgXXXaXXiXXXXXXXXXhchgXXXX XXXXiaXXXXbacXXaXXXhXXXXeXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,30,31,30,26,32,27,27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101001011 10110111111 0101001010100 1110101111 1111001001 11111001 011001110101 11100011111 010101111110 111001011111 11110101100010 110101111010 1111110110 11010011111 101101111110 101011011111 110110101110 01001001011 01001001111 11000010010110 11101111111 1101110101110 1101001101 11011110010 11111011111010 1110111110 110110011001 1111010101 10010110101 1101111111 11110011101 1000110100111 10100011010 10111010111100 111010101010 1011001111101 10010011101 101000110110 11100010110001 11110101110 1001011110 10111110100 11101110011 11110110111010 110101111101110 1101001111110 10101110100 1001011111100 101110000100010 101110100110 1110101101 10101011010 1001101101100 101001111100100 1111101101110 1100101111 1110101101 1100110110111 1101110100 1110101111101 110001110001 110101011100 100100110110 111111010101 10100111010 10010110010 10111101 1001010010 1011001010 11011101110 1010011111 1101010100110 1111001111001 11110010110 11010101101101 110100110111 1011111110101 1100111011 110110110010 1010110011110 1110111111001 1110100011110 1101110011010 111100111101 11011011101 111111111100 111011111001 110111000101 001100010111100 101001110110 1101010110111 1001101010110 11001111110 0101100110010 110110010010 1101101100110 10110101010 11010001111 11110001010001 1100110110 11110111010110 11000101001100010 1101011101110 1100110111011 110111111110010 110101101000001 11101101 10011001101010 1111001001011 110011111000 111010101 00101010111110 100010100010 11010000110111 11110001111 1111100001010 000111011110 11100111111 10101000101 11100011110010 101001001100101000 11110101110111 11010101011101000 110010101001 111001111001 11110101100110 1011011011 11100101011 11111101111 1111001111 10111110110 111111110110 1101101011001 1010110111010 11001011011 10111110110110 1110111001 1001101110010 1101001110 111111001111111 111011010110 110101111110 0101011001011 110110010101000 000110110011 10101110110 11010111110 0110111111 1111011101010 111000111100 111101101010 111011111110 110101101111 11001010101111010 1100101110010 1101110011010010 1010011001 110100111110 110101110100 1100110101001 111100111111 110011000101010 1011010100011010 110101010110 011111000100110 11010010001011 100110011011 101100111001 111000101111 10110111011 10011100010011 111111111111 11000110110 011011110101 11101100101 111101111011 011101110110 11011111010010 1101001110110 101101110101010 111101011101 10100110100100010 1110101111001 11110110110 101101011010 0101111010 111111100111010 110010100111100 11011100110 11100101011 11110100100101 11100010011 10101001011001 0011010111101 1100111110010 111011111100 10010110110 101010110101 1101001011001 1100101101010 11100010011111 11110010011000 11011001011001 1100101010101 11110100010 1111001011111 1100101110111 01000100100010 1010111111 110011110010 10111110110010 1110111001 11111110111001 1111011011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1377
  • Average number of words per stanza: 253
  • Amount of lines: 214
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, this, of, hem, thow, to, ', me, it, that, his, in, somme, i, for, us, ye, hire are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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