The Scansion of Two Lines in Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Christophersen, Paul.
The Scansion of Two Lines in Chaucer.
- Published
- English Studies 45.1-6 [Supplement] (1964): 146-50.
- Description
- Scans two lines of GP (49 and 173), "usually felt to be awkward," arguing that in light of comparable Middle English examples the syllable counts and stress patterns of these lines are consistent with the "iambic-decasyllabic theory."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales