Structuralism and the Study of Poetry: A Parametric Analysis of Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale' and 'Parlement of Foules'

Author / Editor
Deligiorgis, S.

Title
Structuralism and the Study of Poetry: A Parametric Analysis of Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale' and 'Parlement of Foules'

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 70 (1969): 297-306.

Description
Analyzes the relations between verse form and meaning in ShT and PF. In the first, patterns of closed and open couplets (where rhymes do or do not "coincide with syntactical closure") align with sententiousness and its uses; in the second, the structure of the rhyme royal stanzas mirror the poem's larger form and its concerns with advance and delay.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Shipman and His Tale
Parliament of Fowls