Chaucer's Metrical Lines: Some Internal evidence

Author / Editor
Biggins, Dennis.

Title
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.