This is an analysis of the poem The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 15 that begins with:

Ac after my wakynge it was wonder longe
Er I koude kyndely knowe what was Dowel. ... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,32,29,30,25,29,34,34,29,36,30,27,30,30,33,34,30,25,24,29,28,29,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1594
  • Average number of words per stanza: 281
  • Amount of lines: 658
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • 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; my, and, to, me, i, cristes, ', thanne, thow, est, dum, that, of, in, for, si, fuerit, hir, non, ne, as, no, he, hym, hem, quod, his, this, thei, ye, cum, by, oon, thorugh, it, us, with, seide are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, til, ther, ', ac, ne, for, in are repeated.

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

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

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

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