Chaucer's Meters

Author / Editor
Li, Xingzhong.

Title
Chaucer's Meters

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3948A

Description
Surveys the history of approaches to Chaucer's meter and critiques individual approaches. Proposes principles of Chaucer's tetrameter and pentameter, focusing on syntactic inversions and phrase boundaries. Chaucer's verse developed from rough tetrameter to regular pentameter to less regular pentameter.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.