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Which of the following innovations is attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer

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The use of decasyllabic meter.

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He expanded the word stock of English, having added myriads of words from other languages.
He broke away from medieval alliterative tradition and started writing in accentual-syllabic meter.
He was also the first one to use the five-stress line, which paved the way for Shakespeare and his iambic pentameter.
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