This is an analysis of Gentilesse by Geoffrey Chaucer.
The firste stok, fader of gentilesse --
What man that desireth gentil for to be…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXX XaXXaXX XaXaXX
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,6,
- Metre: 011100100 11110010100 11001110101 1001110101 110101010 1101010111 10111110 011110100 100111011 100111100 100101010 1101110111 101101111 10111110 111010110 1111111111 100101001 1010010101 100110010 1101010111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, his, of, he, may, that
Anadiplosis
he