A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... according to the quality of the preceding syllable , is proved by the simple fact that , by means of these laws and those other laws relating to stress , which hold also for the later Germanic rimed verse of Otfrid and Lagamon , according ...
... according to the quality of the preceding syllable , is proved by the simple fact that , by means of these laws and those other laws relating to stress , which hold also for the later Germanic rimed verse of Otfrid and Lagamon , according ...
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... according to their Composition . All OE . alliterative verses can be divided into 90 subspecies or ' types ' according to their com- position ( see tables p . 76 f . ) , as I have already shown in my Studien zum germanischen Allitera ...
... according to their Composition . All OE . alliterative verses can be divided into 90 subspecies or ' types ' according to their com- position ( see tables p . 76 f . ) , as I have already shown in my Studien zum germanischen Allitera ...
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... according to the sentence stress of ordinary speech ; but they are independent , and not united to form feet of two or of three members as in OE . and early ME . verse . The verse is therefore , not one of four members ' , but of four ...
... according to the sentence stress of ordinary speech ; but they are independent , and not united to form feet of two or of three members as in OE . and early ME . verse . The verse is therefore , not one of four members ' , but of four ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Division of English Prosody | 7 |
Old English Prosody 4501100 | 14 |
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alexandrine alliterating sound alliteration alliterative verse anacrusis anapaestic arses arsis arsis and thesis Beow Beowulf blank verse Brut caesura Chaucer Chaucerian stanza compounds consonant dactylic double alliteration dramas Engl English prosody English verse enjambement feet feminine endings foot four beats gode half-verse hath hebungen heroic couplet heroic verse hexameters iamb iambic identical rime King Horn lables Lagamon's Latin long-line Luick masculine endings metre metrical monosyllabic number of syllables ottava rima poems poetry poets regular rhythm rhythmical structure rima rimed verse romance root-syllable scheme Schipper Schwellverse second half-line septenary seven-line Shakespeare short rimed couplet short syllables Sievers sixteenth century sone sonnet strongly stressed words subsidiary stress tail-rime stanza thesis three beats three members Trautmann trochaic trochaic verses trochee two-beat theory types unrimed unstressed syllables verse of four verse-ending verses of five vowel weakly stressed words whilst žat