Toward a Description of Chaucer's Verse Forms
- Author / Editor
- Dane, Joseph A.
Toward a Description of Chaucer's Verse Forms
- Published
- Studia Neophilologica 81 (2009): 45-52.
- Description
- Outlines a method for describing Chaucer's verse forms as syllabic, with accent overlaid secondarily on this base. Dane argues that this method is more simple than descriptions that give priority to accent and the iamb, as well as more useful in distinguishing Chaucer's verse from that of his sources and of other Middle English poets.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.