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Anelida and Arcite is a 357-line English poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. It tells the story of Anelida queen of Armenia and her wooing by false Arcite from Thebes Greece.Although relatively short it is a poem with a complex structure with an invocation and then the main story. The story is made up of an introduction and a complaint by Anelida which is in turn made up of a proem a strophe antistrophe and a conclusion.