Poem Analysis of L'Envoy Of Chaucer To Bukton by Geoffrey Chaucer for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem L'Envoy Of Chaucer To Bukton that begins with:

My Master Bukton, when of Christ our King
Was asked, What is truth or soothfastness?... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aXabbXbX cdcddeXe fgfgbeXe dhXXhhhh
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: rima
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 1101010111 111011100 1101100110 1111101111 111111001 0101110010 1111001100 1111110110 1011110001 01001111010 1111011001 11001101010 1110111110 110110101 11110001100 111110111 111111101 100111011 11111011111 101111111 1011011101 0100111111 11010001001 1101010001 0101100110 111110011 10001111101 01010111010 0101111111 0010111111 111111001 0101110001
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
Average number of words per stanza: 68
Amount of lines: 32
Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, he, thy, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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