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;…
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
