This is an analysis of Since I From Love by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Since I from Love escaped am so fat,
I ne'er think to be in his prison ta'en;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AXb abAXabbA
  • Stanza lengths: 3,8,
  • Metre: 110101111 11100001010 1111111101 111011011 1111111111 110101111 111111001 1101101101 1101101101 110101111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

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