Towards a Theory of Sporadic Rhyming

Author / Editor
Tartakovsky, Roi.

Title
Towards a Theory of Sporadic Rhyming

Published
Language and Literature 23.02 (2014): 101-17.

Description
Argues that "from Chaucer onwards rhyme is used consistently as a prosodic device in English verse." Differentiate systematic rhyme from sporadic rhyme and notes that this fourteenth-century "era of systematization was preceded by an era of sporadic use."

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification