The Metrical Structure of Chaucer's 'A B C'

Author / Editor
Zbozny, Frank T.

Title
The Metrical Structure of Chaucer's 'A B C'

Published
DAI 31.05 (1970): 2357A.

Description
Uses the Halle-Keyser theory of meter to discover a "pattern of heavy stresses in the initial syllables" of twenty-one of the twenty-three stanzas of ABC that "illuminate the poem aurally."

Chaucer Subjects
ABC
Style and Versification