The Art of Chaucer's Verse

Author / Editor
Smoot, Maxine Bixby.

Title
The Art of Chaucer's Verse

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 6735A

Description
Chaucer artfully uses meter to support meaning. The tensions between meter and speech rhythm, enjambment and run-on lines, rhyme and alliteration, and denotation and onomatopoeia all display his technical virtuosity.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.