Chaucer's Metrical Lines: Some Internal evidence
- Author / Editor
- Biggins, Dennis.
Chaucer's Metrical Lines: Some Internal evidence
- Published
- Parergon 17 (1977): 17-24.
- Description
- Though we cannot recover the facts of Chaucer's versification,his lines in CT are basically iambic pentameter. Of the first hundred lines of GP in the Ellesmere MS., eighty may be so scanned with little difficulty.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.