This is an analysis of the poem The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 07 that begins with:

Treuthe herde telle herof, and to Piers sente
To taken his teme and tilien the erthe, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXcXdXXXaXXXXc XXXeXXXXXXXXfXXXXXXXXXgX XhiXXiXXXiXXXXcXXiXXXX XXXXjXXXfXXXXkgXXjXXXXXX aXXXfXXXXXXXXXXcfXXXXXXXXkk XfXXXXXXXXcXaXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXX XXXhiXXXXXXaXgXXXXXXXXcdXXXXeXe khXXcXhXXgXiXXXXXXXbXifXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,29,24,22,24,27,31,31,25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101011 0100111001 110010100101010 111111110110 1111111110110 1111010101101 110101011110 10011011100 10110110101 11000101001 11010100010110 0100110000100010 100100011111 1000110101001 1011111100110 11000010010110 110101101101 1000101110 111010101001111 111111000110110 111111101111110 1011011001 1110010111101 111101001111 1100101011010 1101001011011 110101010 1110101100 10100110110 10111010111 1110011011010 1001011011 1111110110110 111011111011011 110111001111 1111010110010 1010111011 11001010110001 1011101110011 10010101111110 1100010011101110 1010001001100 101101011111 101101111010 010011000101010 1110010110110111 1110011110 111110011101010 10100110111100 10010111001110 11110111110 1110101110101 11111110100101010 010110000100001 11011011111111101 110100101001010 11101001101 11011111100110 111010011010011 010011010101 1101011111010 110011000111010 101011010100101 1101001100110 110010110010 110011011111 1001100011101 100110011001 10001001110101 111101110111 1010011100010 1101001010001 1011101101111 01010110111010101 1010111010010 1110001010 10010110010110 11000010111101011 111001001111101 11010111110 110011000111100101100 10011000111101010 1111010101111111 011100010010101 1111010110101 11110101101001 110010100011101100 0101110111101 1110010011101 1010110010001010 101011100101111 110101011011010 111011110111110 10101111001 11001100101010 01101011010010 1011001011101010001 1011010 11101111111 11111101101 11110010101110 110111100110 101111110001 11110010101100010 1011001001100 10110101110110 1111111101 110111111111 111111110101 1100111111 111001101010 110010100110110 11110101010 1101110111110 1101110001011 1110111110111 11101111101110 11101010100 11101110101 0110111011 11101101001 111010010010100 11010010100 110110111111101 11111111111110 111101110111110 11011101011110 111111010 111100000100110 110010101101 111001101111111 11101011110011 01010101111100 110111111111 110011010101 110010111101 1101100100110 101010111111 1101111011100 1110010100101 11100010110010 110111001101 010000111110110 11110010111110 1101010101110 11100101101110 1000100111111 11011001101110 10101111111011111 110001000101000110 1101011101001010 110010101100 110001101111101 0111010001010 11101101011010 1101001111 100110011010 10101001111 101010110101 01111000101 11101011001 1101011101010 1101100001110 111111001001111011 1011000100101 01100100110111 11101101010 110100010001 1110000010010 10111110100 110101111001 10010101110100 1110100010110 011010110101 11011000101101 10100101011 1101010010 11110101110110 11111111110 010101010101 1101101001 01010101110111 1010111001 110110110010 11011001001 10110110010 11101010101001000 110101001101 1101101001 011001001001 000101101101110 10100010101010010101 11111011010 11011011011 11110101010 11011110100110 001110101101010 1011110111101 01101101001 0110010010110 11011010110 1101001111110 01011010110 1010111101 110110110001 111011111110 1111011101110 010001011110010 110100100010110 11010010011011 11110011101111 1011011001110 10101001110 1111110111 110011111 1101111010 1010111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1249
  • Average number of words per stanza: 226
  • Amount of lines: 217
  • 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, for, hym, to, thei, as, hem, yow, in, ne, he, that, no, hir, ', have, thi, me, thow are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words that, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • history of its creation;
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