Chaucer's Decasyllabic Line: The Myth of the Hundred-Year Hibernation
- Author / Editor
- Lynn, Karen.
Chaucer's Decasyllabic Line: The Myth of the Hundred-Year Hibernation
- Published
- Chaucer Review 13 (1978): 116-27.
- Description
- Morris Halle and Samuel J. Keyser, through careful computer analysis, seem to have put down the myth of the hundred-year-hibernation of Chaucer's decasyllabic line. By studying the stresses and their positions in the line, Halle and Keyser have concluded that later poets seem not so much to have changed the rules of Chaucer's iambic pentameter as to have observed the rules differently.
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- Style and Versification.