Chaucer 시의 첫 음보 도치시행의 시적 효과

A Study on the Poetic Effects of Chaucer's Inverted First Feet: with reference to the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales

The purpose of this article is twofold. Firstly, it surveys Chaucer's use of vocabulary of Germanic and Romance origin in order to identify the phonetic value of final unstressed -e as well as word stress. With regard to Chaucer's meter, isosyllabism and stress alternation are issues of continual debate. Chaucer's pentameter combines the ten-syllable count with stress alternation: the ten syllables are further structured into five iambs. Secondly, it attempts to extract the lines with inverted first feet and headless lines from the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales so as to reveal why such lines are introduced and what effects they have. Such lines can be said to have the artistic effect placing emphasis on the marked peculiarity of the portraits.