Throughout the story, Constance is unmoved and, unshaken from the great Christian virtues of humility, faith, hope, and charity. She moves from one improbable situation to another and always, in the end, is miraculously saved. Chaucer makes no attempt to explain these miraculous events; he — and his audience — seemingly accepts them joyously.
It is puzzling why Chaucer has the Man of Law pretend that he cannot handle rhymes: “I speak plain prose and leave the rhymes to (Chaucer).” Yet, his tale is told in seven-line stanzas of rhymed iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, technically called Rime Royal, a scheme Chaucer uses in Troilus and Criseyde.
