'The Craft So Long to Lerne' : Chaucer's Invention of the Iambic Pentameter
- Author / Editor
- Duffell, Martin J.
'The Craft So Long to Lerne' : Chaucer's Invention of the Iambic Pentameter
- Published
- Chaucer Review 34: 269-88, 2000.
- Description
- Chaucer's model for the iambic pentameter line was Boccaccio's endecasillabo, not the French vers de dix. Chaucer introduced the "void" position, the "extra unprominent syllable within the hemistich, and possibly the epic caesura." All of his pentameter poems show equal mastery of line, and verse analysis indicates that he is probably the author of the "Ch" poems.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.