Polysyllabic Words in End-of-Line Position in the Franklin's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Stévanovitch, Colette.
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.