This is an analysis of Rondel Of Merciless Beauty by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly;
Their beauty shakes me who was once serene;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ABB abABXabbABB
  • Stanza lengths: 3,11,
  • Metre: 1111011100 1101111101 1111010111 1011010100 0111110101 1111011100 1101111101 0111111100 1111011111 1011011101 1111011100 1101111101 1111010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 13