Analysis of The Love Unfeigned
Geoffrey Chaucer 1343 (London) – 1400 (London)
O YONGE fresshe folkes, he or she,
In which that love up groweth with your age,
Repeyreth hoom from worldly vanitee,
And of your herte up-casteth the visage
To thilke god that after his image
Yow made, and thinketh al nis but a fayre
This world, that passeth sone as floures fayre.
And loveth him, the which that right for love
Upon a cros, our soules for to beye,
First starf, and roos, and sit in hevene a-bove;
For he nil falsen no wight, dar I seye,
That wol his herte al hoolly on him leye.
And sin he best to love is, and most meke,
What nedeth feyned loves for to seke?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 011111111 111101 011111010 111110110 110111101 11111111 011011111 0101101111 1101010101 111111111 111111111 0111111011 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
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 May 03, 2023
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