Computer-Assisted Study of Chaucer's Metre

Author / Editor
Solopova, Elizabeth.

Title
Computer-Assisted Study of Chaucer's Metre

Published
Parergon 18.1: 157-79, 2000.

Description
Discusses meter, rhythm, and textual problems in Chaucer's iambic pentameter, analyzing them using text-analysis computer applications: Oxford Concordance Program and WordSmith Tools. Texts of GP and WBP from the Hengwrt manuscript are transcribed using a numerical transcription system. Data about rhythm and phraseology provide evidence to support editorial choices.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.