The Bob-Wheel and Allied Stanza Forms in Middle English and Middle Scots Poetry Page: 4
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successful. These poems represent a transitional stage
between the earlier alliterative verse and the rhymed
stanzaic poetry which eventually supplanted it.
Possible reasons for the abandonment of the bob-wheel
stanza toward the end of the Middle English period include
its intrinsic difficulty, the influence of Chaucer, who
ridiculed it in "Sir Thopas," and the growing popularity of
stanzas characteristic of the early Renaissance. The bob-
wheel, however, influenced the development of other aniso-
metric stanzas which originated during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, and it retained its vogue in Scotland
until the time of James I and VI.
The dissertation includes a general introduction of
the topic, chapters on the influence of Latin and Romance
stanzaic structure, a chronological survey of the bob-wheel
poems, and a conclusion in which theories concerning the
origins, development, and decline of the form are discussed.
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Kirkpatrick, Hugh. The Bob-Wheel and Allied Stanza Forms in Middle English and Middle Scots Poetry, dissertation, August 1976; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332279/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .