This is an analysis of the poem Troilus And Cresida that begins with:

FROM CUAUCER
NEXT morning Troilus began to clear... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ababXcc cdcddee fgfggfX cXXccbh cgcggcc bfhffdd iXiggjj bbhbbff gagaagg fhfhbbb aklkkii ibibbff djdggbb fmfmmbb cgcgXhh fbfbhff dcdccaa cXceell dfdffdd nanaaoo cdcddmm pbpbbcc agaggii gcXccnn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010 110100101 0101101101 11010001101 1101110001 1101010100 1111111101 1101010101 11000010001 0111000101 1111010101 110101011 11010011101 1111011101 1111011101 10010110101 11110010001 1111011101 110111101 0111011101 1101011101 1110010010 1111110100 1101011101 1101011000 1101010001 1101011111 1101110111 0111110100 101101011 1001000101 1101010101 1101111001 1111110111 1111111101 1111010101 10011110011 011110001 1111011010 1111010011 1011010101 1100101101 11001110101 1001110111 1101001000 1111110001 1111101101 1101111101 1011010011 1101111101 1100110111 1111011111 1101011100 1101110111 1111011111 1111000101 1010011111 1101001111 1111010101 1100010100 1011110111 1011101111 0101101101 1101111001 1101011111 1101110100 11110111001 1101110100 1101010101 1111011011 1111101001 1111010111 1111111111 11011111010 1101110111 1111100101 1111110111 1100011111 0101110001 1111010001 1111111110 1101110110 1001011101 1101100101 0101110101 1100100101 1101100111 1111111011 1001111101 0111110101 1101011101 1101011001 1101011101 0111110011 1011000101 1101011111 1101111011 1111111011 1101110101 1001010101 1111011101 1111110101 1111001111 110110100 11100101010 10010101010 0101110001 11001100111 1011110111 111101001 1101111100 1111111101 1111001111 1101100101 00100011111 1101010111 1101010111 1111010111 00111100101 1101111111 1101111101 0011111010 1101001111 0111011111 1101011011 01110111110 11111000010 1111011111 1101000101 11001110101 101011001 1101000111 1111111101 1101010101 11011101110 1101011101 11001011110 1111010111 1101110111 11110111001 1111100111 01011101001 1101001111 1101010111 1101111101 1111010111 110010101 0111010101 0101110111 00111010111 1101100111 1100111101 1100010110 1111011011 1011110100 1100011111 1101100011 0011011011 1101101101 0101110001 1101110111 0101110111 0101011101 1101111011 1101011100 1100110101 0101110111 10111111010 00110111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 169
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, i, he, his, and, me, so, her, for, that, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, and, as, for 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.

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

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