Some Observations of English Binary Metres
- Author / Editor
- Duffell, Martin J.
Some Observations of English Binary Metres
- Published
- Language and Literature 17 (2008): 5-20.
- Description
- Provides statistical analysis of 300-line samples from the verse of eight poets who wrote in English (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Longfellow, and Browning), comparing percentages of inversion and "erosion" among iambic pentameter, iambic tetrameter, and trochaic tetrameter. Applies principles derived from Russian metrical analysis and from parametric theory. The Chaucerian sample is the opening of GP.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales