Chaucer's Double Consonants and the Final E.
- Author / Editor
- Malone, Kemp.
Chaucer's Double Consonants and the Final E.
- Published
- Mediaeval Studies 18 (1956) 204-07.
- Description
- Describes grammatical and metrical conditions that restrict or encourage pronunciation of final -e at the end of lines in Chaucer's verse. Introduces double-consonant rhymes as a previously unnoticed factor in these concerns, explores their etymologies, and argues that occurrences of this condition indicate "that Chaucer habitually pronounced the final unstrest e at the end of a line."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Language and Word Studies