Verbal Rhyming in Chaucer

Author / Editor
Mustanoja, Tauno F.

Title
Verbal Rhyming in Chaucer

Published
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 104-10.

Description
Shows that the use of verbs as rhyme words is ubiquitous in medieval (and later) poetry, and therefore not particularly Chaucerian as has been suggested. Suggests that rhyming with infinitives is especially prevalent because the form is "syntactically flexible."

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification