Analysis of Chaucer's Words to His Scrivener
Geoffrey Chaucer 1343 (London) – 1400 (London)
Adam Scrivener, if ever it thee befall
Boece or Troilus for to write anew,
Under thy long locks thou may'st have the scall
But after my making thou write more true!
So oft a day I must thy work renew,
It to correct, and eke to rub and scrape;
And all is through thy negligence and rape.
| Scheme | ABABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Rhyme royal |
| Metre | 10101101101 11111101 10111111101 1101101111 1101111101 1101011101 0111110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 288 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 222 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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