End-rhyme and Alliterative Sonotations in Chaucer, Gower, Langland and the 'Gawain'-poet

Author / Editor
Bormann, Sally.

Title
End-rhyme and Alliterative Sonotations in Chaucer, Gower, Langland and the 'Gawain'-poet

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 199A.

Description
"Sonotations" (generated by sound patterns that affect both denotation and connotation) appear in rhymed and alliterative verse.
Poets balance the structural and sensuous qualities of sound with sense, and aesthetic qualities with didactic ones.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.