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... alternate rime abab results from dividing lines in 3. This rime is much used in English stanzas , e.g. Adieu , adieu ! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue . The night - winds sigh , the breakers roar , And shrieks the wild sea ...
... alternate rime abab results from dividing lines in 3. This rime is much used in English stanzas , e.g. Adieu , adieu ! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue . The night - winds sigh , the breakers roar , And shrieks the wild sea ...
Page 215
... alternate rime a b abg , as in a part of the Bestiary ( § 134 ) : Al is man so is tis ern , Wulde ge nu listen , Old in hise sinnes dern , Or he bicumeđ christen , later , too , in a part of the romance of Sir Ferum- bras ( Schipper's ...
... alternate rime a b abg , as in a part of the Bestiary ( § 134 ) : Al is man so is tis ern , Wulde ge nu listen , Old in hise sinnes dern , Or he bicumeđ christen , later , too , in a part of the romance of Sir Ferum- bras ( Schipper's ...
Page 216
... alternate rimes ( a ba b ) as early as the thirteenth century , e.g. in a hymn ( Old Engl . Misc . ) : Jesu , lord , þat madist me And wip þi blessid blod hast bougt , Forgeue þat y haue greuid be Wip worde , wip wil , and ek wib bougt ...
... alternate rimes ( a ba b ) as early as the thirteenth century , e.g. in a hymn ( Old Engl . Misc . ) : Jesu , lord , þat madist me And wip þi blessid blod hast bougt , Forgeue þat y haue greuid be Wip worde , wip wil , and ek wib bougt ...
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... alternate rime , then follows a bob - verse ( of one beat ) , finally come two verses be with three beats . The scheme is a ba ba ba b c1 b c , or , since Greek letters are used for the bob - verse , a § 173. 174 . 221 The Tristrem Stanza .
... alternate rime , then follows a bob - verse ( of one beat ) , finally come two verses be with three beats . The scheme is a ba ba ba b c1 b c , or , since Greek letters are used for the bob - verse , a § 173. 174 . 221 The Tristrem Stanza .
Page 223
... alternate rime . The scheme is abababab , dddcg . See Noah 1. 100ff . in Schipper's Übungsbuch 8th ed . p . 176 ff .: Therfore shalle I fordo Alle this medille - erd With floodis that shalle flo And ryn with hidous rerd . I haue good ...
... alternate rime . The scheme is abababab , dddcg . See Noah 1. 100ff . in Schipper's Übungsbuch 8th ed . p . 176 ff .: Therfore shalle I fordo Alle this medille - erd With floodis that shalle flo And ryn with hidous rerd . I haue good ...
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accent alexandrine alliterating sound alliteration alliterative verse anacrusis anapaestic arses arsis arsis and thesis Beow Beowulf blank verse Brut caesura Chaucer Chaucerian stanza compound consonant D¹ verses derivative syllable double alliteration Engl English prosody English Verse enjambement feet feminine endings four bars four beats Germanic half-verse hath hebungen heroic couplet heroic verse hexameters hwile iambic identical rime King Horn lables Lagamon's Latin leod long line long-line Luick masculine endings metre metrical monosyllabic number of syllables ofer ottava rima poems poetry poets rare regular rhythm rhythmical structure rima rimed verse root-syllable scheme Schipper Schwellverse sẽ second half-line septenary Shakespeare short rimed couplet short syllables Sievers sixteenth century sone sonnet Spenserian stanza strongly stressed words subsidiary stress tail-rime stanza thesis three beats three members Trautmann trochaic trochee two-beat theory types unrimed unstressed syllables verse of four verse-ending vowel whilst þat
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