Emendation and the Chaucerian Metrical Template

Author / Editor
Minkova, Donka, and Robert Stockwell.

Title
Emendation and the Chaucerian Metrical Template

Published
Donka Minkova and Theresa Tinkle, eds. Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism: Studies in Honor of H. A. Kelly (Frankfurt and New York : Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 129-39.

Description
Of roughly 30,000 lines of Chaucer's iambic pentameter, only a tiny subset are variant. The majority of his lines follow a template of ten syllables, each foot beginning with a weak syllable. The essay refers specifically to FranT.

Contributor
Stockwell, Robert.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism: Studies in Honor of H. A. Kelly.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.
Franklin and His Tale.