This is an analysis of Lak Of Stedfastnesse by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Somtyme the world was so stedfast and stable
That mannes word was obligacioun,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXX aXaXXXX aXXXXXX XXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,
- Metre: 10011110110 11111000 1100111100 111110100 110111111 0101111100 1101110100 110010011000 111110100 101110101010 101111100 101011100 1100110100 1101110100 10111001010 101111000 110011010 110001100 011101000 1101110100 1101110100 111000100 101111100 110110100 011010110 111101000 1111111100 1111100100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, for, thy
