Question

Alliterative poetry differs from the dominant verse form of Chaucer’s age mainly because it was:

• A. Based on rhyming couplets
• B. Based on unrhymed alliteration
• C. Written in iambic pentameter
• D. Composed of rhyming quatrains

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Based on unrhymed alliteration

• Rhyme was dominant in Chaucer’s London circle.

• Alliterative poetry revived older Anglo-Saxon style.

• Used repetition of initial consonant sounds.