Chaucer’s Canterbury tale is written in a free verse as there is no meter found in Chaucer’s work. However, the tale does follow an aa bb rhyming pattern. For example: This carpenter hadde wedded newe a wfe. (A)
Which he loved moore than his lyf (A)
Of eighteteene yeer she was of age (B)
Jalous he was, and heeld hire narwe in cage (B)
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(Oxford university press, 2017) Chaucer uses a comparison between a lovely little doll and a wrench. (Chaucer, line 3254). As the young wife is married the use of the word wrench is defined as a croomed and cunning person, someone full of deceit and tricky. (Oxford university press, 2017) Such trickery has tarnished her reputation, in fact that she is good enough to sleep in the lord’s bed but not in his marriage bed, rather she was only innocent enough to marry a yeoman, peasant. (Chaucer, lines