This is an analysis of the poem The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 08 that begins with:

Thus yrobed in russet I romed aboute
Al a somer seson for to seke Dowel, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXbXcbbXXXXdeXXXXXXXXXeXX fXXbXXXcXXXXXXXXfXXaXXgX XXXXhXXXXXXdiiXiXXXXhXXXXXX XXXXXXcXXXXXaXXXXXaXXXjXXX XXXXXXXXaXXXbXgXaXXjXXXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,24,27,26,25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110001011010 10101010110 1101101111 01011110111 111110010111 11011111111 101101111 101010111111 1000101011 1101100111100 11111001110 01110111010 11101011010 110100111110 110101101101010 110100110101 110111011110 10101011001110 11011111101100 10111011100100 111010011010 101010110010 11010111101101110 11011101111000 10111101110011 1010010001010 111111101011 1101001110101 1010010111111 110100110011 0110101010001 100110101101 1111011110011 11101111111100 101110101011001 011001001100 1100111010010 111010101111111 010010001110110 010001110110 11101101010 010100110110001 110011011011 10011101001 1101111110110 11010010011101 111010111011 111101111001 1011111101 11110110 1010111110 11111101010 1111010001110 110111001001010 011000101010 111111011001 1011110110110 111110111101110 11011111111110 1101111110110 1110111110 111110111010 11111001011 101100110101 100100111 11001010110101 010101101001 10101011101 0100010111 11010101111 0111111010 11111111 11111111111110 11111111110 11111111111 11110101111110 11111111011 111010111010 101111011001 11110111101 1001001100110 1100111100101010 10100010101010 1011001110010110 10111111111 1011101110001 11011101110 01010100111011 10110011110 101001111110 101000101110010 11000111010 100100100011010100 11100010101 1011110111110 100011110010010 010111101111 010111001010010 110101001001 1101101001100 01100101011 101011011010 110111101010 110101111001110 11011011001 1100101011 11011101010 1100111011111100 1101111111 11100111101111 1111011001 11010110101010 111111111111 1011111110100 111111110 100011011010 10110011110 1111110110 11110100111010 1001010011 1111100101010 1111110110 111110010110 1110110110011 110111110 1110110110101 101110111 1101011110111 1101111000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1322
  • Average number of words per stanza: 253
  • Amount of lines: 129
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, and, ', he, that, thi, to, made, me, thow, quod, his, of, hem 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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