'In Meetre in Many a Sondry Wyse': Fortune's Wheel and 'The Monk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Ruud, Jay.

Title
'In Meetre in Many a Sondry Wyse': Fortune's Wheel and 'The Monk's Tale'

Published
English Language Notes 26:4 (1989): 6-11.

Description
The eight-line rhyme scheme of MkT, with the prosodic climax situated in the middle of the stanza, suggests Fortune's wheel.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.
Style and Versification.