This is an analysis of The Complaint Of Chaucer To His Purse by Geoffrey Chaucer.
To yow, my purse, and to noon other wight
Complayne I, for ye be my lady dere!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXXabb XaXXXXb XaXXaXb XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,6,
- Metre: 0111101101 1011101101 1111011101 1101111101 1011010111 1110110111 11010110111 1101011101 1101010111 111101011 101001101 1011101101 101010010 11010110111 1111011101 110110011 100111111 1111111100 1111111101 111110110 11010110111 10010 110001010 111111100 0101010111 1111011110 110111000
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
ye
