Clashing Stress in the Metres of Old, Middle, and Renaissance English
- Author / Editor
- Cable, Thomas.
Clashing Stress in the Metres of Old, Middle, and Renaissance English
- Published
- C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson, eds. English Historical Metrics (Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 7-29.
- Description
- Cable traces a pattern of development in English stress "clashing," affected by stress subordination and stress spacing. Chaucer's "alternating metre has frequent stress subordination, but it is less clear that it makes systematic use of stress spacing," found more frequently in alliterative and Shakespearean meters.
- Alternative Title
- English Historical Metrics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.