This is an analysis of the poem The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 20 that begins with:

Thanne as I wente by the way, whan I was thus awaked,
Hevy chered I yede, and elenge in herte; ... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,31,35,33,31,35,33,29,28,24,31,38,27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111011111100 10101111001 1111110111111 101010110111 11001111011 10010111101110 11101100110100 111011100100100 1111111111 111111111101101 111011001101 1010111101111010 1111110101111101 111011111011 110110111001 111110011111100 11011011010 101110101011 11111101111 1111111011010 10010010110010 111111100100 1011110100100 10100101110010000 11001000010011 111111010111 1111011110010 1111010101 1100101101111 100101010101 1100100100111 0111011001111 10011011110000 1010011100 11001110 11011110110 1111011101110 11101110110 1000101111010 11001100011101 1110111011 11111011010 111101101011010 1110011011 11110110111 1011101001 111101111101 111011110110 10011000110010 1111101110010 111011101110010 11110011101110 11110001011 10011110101 1001111110001 111111111010 010111111101 1111111011 1101111111 11001000111011 110101010110 111111111010 110011001 10110111101 1011100101110 1101111111010 10110111010 111111001011 111110001110 1001111001010 1110110010 0011101010010 111010110111 10110110010 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  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1545
  • Average number of words per stanza: 280
  • Amount of lines: 390
  • 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; i, and, to, he, nede, for, spiritus, nedy, that, ', in, me, thow, with, of, thei, hem, noumbre, ben, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, ypocrisie 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 temperancie, ofte, nedy, ', noumbre are repeated).

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

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