Computational Prosodics: The Decasyllabic Line from Chaucer to Skelton

Author / Editor
Lynn, Karen.

Title
Computational Prosodics: The Decasyllabic Line from Chaucer to Skelton

Published
DAI 35.07 (1974): 4210A.

Description
Uses Morris Halle and Seymour Jay Keyser's metrical theory to describe "English decasyllabic verse of the later Middle Ages" and explore why Chaucer's iambic pentameter was not followed more closely by poets such as Hoccleve, Lydgate, Dunbar, and Skelton.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion