1. Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer

2. Who is Geoffrey Chaucer? pg. 108

3. What is the “Canterbury Tales”?
Make sure to mention the importance of being written in Middle English as opposed to French.

4. Where is Canterbury?

5. Jigsaw

6. Rhyme Scheme  Approximately 17,000 lines total
The poem has a distinct rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Heroic Couplets: two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter
Iambic pentameter: 10 syllables in an unstressed/stressed pattern
Chaucer also has each pair of lines rhyme.

7. Example
The rhyming words have been underlined, and the rhyme scheme has been completed following the pattern “a, a, b, b.”
When in April the sweet showers fall a
And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all a
The veins are bathed in liquor of the power, b
And brings out engendering of the flower b