Chaucer's Riding Rhyme

Author / Editor
Chickering, Howell.

Title
Chaucer's Riding Rhyme

Published
Susan Yager and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds. Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord (Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013), pp. 49-63.

Description
Chaucer's poetry should be declaimed or at least heard with the "mind's ear." His decasyllabic couplets, once dismissed by critics as "riding rhyme" and even confused with the doggerel of Th, are "eminently playable," offering a variety of phonological and semantic possibilities. Rhyme, enjambment, and caesurae contribute to Chaucer's conversational style in CT.

Alternative Title
Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Canterbury Tales--General
Tale of Sir Thopas