This is an analysis of the poem The Complaint Of Chaucer To His Purse that begins with:
To yow, my purse, and to noon other wight
Complayne I, for ye be my lady dere! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXabb XaXXXXb XaXXaXb XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- 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
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; ye is repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dye at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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More information about poems by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Analysis of The Canterbury Tales; Epilogue
- Analysis of The Merchant's Tale
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