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 Answer the questions Below. Your response will be appreciated much! Thanks Dear!

• Before reaching the parliamentary portion of the garden, what do we first see?
• Who is in charge at the parliament?
• Why must the dilemma be resolved?
• What does the narrator resolve to do at the end?