Chaucer's English Rhymes: The 'Roman', the 'Romaunt', and 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Borroff, Marie.
Chaucer's English Rhymes: The 'Roman', the 'Romaunt', and 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Peter S. Baker and Nicholas Howe, ed. Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson (Toronto, Buffalo, and New York: University of Toronto Press, 1998), pp. 223-42.
- Description
- Defines kinds of rhyme by their varying degrees of "richness," from "simple rhymes" to "triple rhymes" (in which three successive terminal syllables rhyme).
- Although Chaucer's rymes in Rom and BD are less various and rich than those in the "Roman de la Rose," his rhyme "systems" archive formal and thematic richness, particularly the recurrent rhyming of "rowhte" and "trowthe" in BD.
- Alternative Title
- Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- Romaunt of the Rose.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.