This is an analysis of Chaucer's Words To His Scrivener by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Adam Scrivener, if ever it thee befall
Boece or Troilus for to write anew,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaabb
  • Stanza lengths: 7,
  • Metre: 10100100101 111010101 1011111101 1101101111 1101111101 0001110111 1101110011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 7