This is an analysis of A Paraphrase, By Chaucer by Eugene Field.

Syn that you, Chloe, to your moder sticken,
Maketh all ye yonge bacheloures full sicken;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabbXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 11110011010 101111000110 11010111110 10110011010 10011011110 10111000110 11011101111 1111110110 100011111010 1111111010 1111011111 11101110111100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

ben, that