This is an analysis of the poem The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 18 that begins with:

Wolleward and weetshoed wente I forth after
As a recchelees renk that [reccheth of no wo], ... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,27,34,30,32,34,29,35,33,30,31,28,31,27,27,18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1473
  • Average number of words per stanza: 273
  • Amount of lines: 454
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; and, me, to, in, his, piers, shal, ', as, it, of, that, hym, or, for, ye, she, this, he, thorugh, we, hire, wele, wo, what, i, gile, blood, caro are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, ', the, for, sholde, that 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 ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

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