Comic Meter and Rhyme in the 'Miller's Tale'

Author / Editor
Chickering, Howell.

Title
Comic Meter and Rhyme in the 'Miller's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Yearbook 2 (1995): 17-47.

Description
Surveys critical commentary on Chaucer's prosody, noting its subordination to commentary on his narrative art.
Exemplifies Chaucer's prosodic virtuosity by demonstrating the colloquial ease that underlies MilT and examining specific instances of comic manipulation of meter, rhyme, and couplet in the tale.
Examines passages in unpunctuated form.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.
Miller and His Tale.