Computers and the History of Scansion

Author / Editor
Dilligan, Robert J., and Karen Lynn.

Title
Computers and the History of Scansion

Published
College English 34 (1973): 1103-4 and 1113-23.

Description
Describes an eight-step "algorithm" for enabling computers to aid in the recognition and cataloging of prosodic traits, and explores the utility of such practice by discussing the data from a computer-assisted scansion of a 1000-line sample of Chaucer's verse (the initial 100 lines from ten poems).

Contributor
Lynn, Karen.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification