THE PARLIAMENT OF FOWLS Poetics: In French, metrical accents are softer or absent, so versification is easier -- just sy

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THE PARLIAMENT OF FOWLS
Poetics: In French, metrical accents are softer or
absent, so versification is easier -- just syllabic. English is
accentual, so alliterative poetry is more basic. The eight-syllable
(octasyllabic) line more or less dies out in English. The
ten-syllable line (pentameter) offers flexibility, from high
rhetorical to colloquial modes. Symmetry is lost because the
caesura is gone or does not fall in the middle of the line, but
there were fewer possibilities in octasyllabic verse due to the
basic desire for two half-lines. Pentameter reduces slightly the
frequency of rhyme, so rhyme is less obtrusive, potentially more
meaningful. Rime Royal -- Chaucer is the first to use this stanzaic
form for narrative purposes. In this he is free from tradition and
convention. It's a more receptive form (rather than a mere
alternative), offering triadic thinking (in lines and rhymes), and
then opposition and ambiguity with lines potentially forming or
seeming like couplets. Chaucerian ambiguities become more subtle,
less obtrusive (e.g., Troilus III.924: "syn" pun concealed). Please
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