Polysyllabic Words in End-of-Line Position in the Franklin's Tale

Author / Editor
Stévanovitch, Colette.

Title
Polysyllabic Words in End-of-Line Position in the Franklin's Tale

Published
Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), pp. 113-24.

Description
The author explores some of the effects arising from polysyllables (i.e., here words with more than one stressed syllable), concentrating on those in rhyming position, especially words referring to worthynesse and gentillesse, the virtues credited to Arveragus in FranT.

Alternative Title
Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.
Style and Versification.