This is an analysis of The Love Unfeigned by Geoffrey Chaucer.

O YONGE fresshe folkes, he or she,
In which that love up groweth with your age,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaaXX bXbXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,
  • Metre: 1111111 0111110011 100101010 1011110010 011110010 1111011101 0111011101 1101011111 010111101 11111101001 1111011111 1101110111 1111010111 110101101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

that

Epiphora

fayre