The Element of Symmetry as a Meaning in The Knight's Tale

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Edmund Reiss once argued that the much-commented-on reference to the phrase " preestes thre"(164) or "nyne and twenty"(24) in The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, "far from being an error, demonstrates vividly Chaucer's preference of theme over narrative. We would likewise argue that the many met-with aspects of summetry in The Knight's Tale manifest structurally Chaucer's preference of meaning over mere description. What should, then, be the meaning by the element of symmetry in the work? In order to answer the question it would be necessary to study a little about the background of the Tale.