1.)  Describe the form called rime royal: meter, rhyme scheme, stanza form.  The rime royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. 2.) What is the structure of this poem? How do the imager and argument of each stanza develop and intensify the appeal?This poem is four stanzas long. The first three are all the same length, the fourth one is only five lines instead of seven. All of the stanzas talk about how he wants money, or how his purse is “light” I have no clue what type of imagery all his words were supposed to provoke because he misspelled half of them anyways ( and I don’t know if they were left like that on purpose to show that he was poor/uneducated or what…) The one piece of imagery that I can understand is in the second stanza in lines 9-11, “That I of you the blissful soun may here, Or see youre colour, lik the sonne bright, That of yellownesse hadde nevere peere.” (in these lines he is picturing golden coins)  3.) In exploring the extended metaphor of the poem, consider how diction accounts for the humor of Chaucer’s parody.

An extended metaphor is one that is carried through the entirety of a literary work ( like the metaphor of Lenny to an animal in the book Of Mice And Men) The extended metaphor in this poem is comparing money to a woman of power. Through out the poem she is referred to as “my lady dere” (2) “myn hertes steere” (12), “Queen of confort” (13) “my lives light, And saviour” (15-16). The choice of words he uses to describe his “woman” adds to the humor of this parody because he is treating his “purse” so nicely and politely, like he would a lady.

 4.) How does the envoy continue the tine of the poem even as it addresses a specific person?An envoy is a conventionalized stanza at the close of a poem, which is addressed to a prince or patron, it may provide a summary or simply serve to dispatch the poem. The envoy at the end of this poem to Prince Henry IV continues the tone of the poem even as it addresses a specific person because he addresses him the same way and wants the same thing from him. The narrator addresses him by praising him, “conquerour” (22) and telling him that he can fix his problem of being poor, “ye that mowen alle oure harmes amende” (25