This is an analysis of A Rondel Of Merciless Beauty - The Original by Geoffrey Chaucer.

I. 1.
Youre two eyn will sle me sodenly…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXXXXX XaXb XaXa XXXXXXX XAbX XaXA XXXXA
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,7,4,4,7,4,4,5,
  • Metre: 11 111011100 110100110 1100100111 1 1111010100 110111001 111011100 1 0111111100 1110111101 101101101 111011100 110100110 1100100111 11 111101111 111100101 1101110001 1 101111110 1111110101 11111111 1 01110101100 111111110 010111101 111011100 110100110 1100100111 11 111101111 1110100101 11111111010 1 111011011 1111111111 111101111 1 1111111001 1101101101 1101101101 111101111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 43

Repeated words/phrases

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