This is an analysis of A Ballad Of Gentleness by Geoffrey Chaucer.
The firste stock-father of gentleness,
What man desireth gentle for to be,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdX abacbdX XbXbcXX
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,
- Metre: 011100100 1110010100 11001110101 1001110101 1101010100 1100110111 111101110 011110100 1001101011 10011110 0101010100 1101110101 101101111 111101110 111010110 1111111111 0101010010 101000101 1001100100 110111111 111101110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, his, of, he, may
Anadiplosis
he
