Title: The connection between the ballade, Chaucer's modification of it, rime royal, and the Spenserian stanza
Subjects: Ballade, English language, English poetry, History and criticism, Influence, Versification
People: Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400)
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700, Middle English, 1100-1500