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The OED define a fabliau as "a metrical tale, often coarsely humourous. Is this an adequate description of the miler's tale or is it more than that?
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... Nikul Patel DS13 The OED define a fabliau as "a metrical tale, often coarsely humourous. Is this an adequate description of the miler's tale or is it more than that? A fabliau consists of two segments that are the metre of the text and the actual course comic value of the piece. Both have to be revised for the miller's tale to be considered a fabliau. The miller's tale is a metrical tale in the sense it has an alternate number of stressed and unstressed syllables in each of its lines. For example, "He ne hade for his labour but a scorn". This means that at least half of the requirements of the oxford dictionary meaning of fabliau have been met. Thus meaning the only other part left to fulfil is whether or not the miller's tale is a coarsely comic piece. To do this we must look at
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