Chaucer's Pentameter: Linguistics, Statistics, and History

Author / Editor
Duffell, Martin J.

Title
Chaucer's Pentameter: Linguistics, Statistics, and History

Published
Chaucer Review 49.02 (2014): 139-60.

Description
Combines literary history with linguistic and statistical analysis to demonstrate how Chaucer's pentameter verse is closer to the Italian "endecasillabo" than to the French "vers de dix."

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations