A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... bars . Each of the bars has two ' Weilen ' ( hebung and senkung ) . These two ' Weilen ' are represented by two syllables or by one . If a bar has two syllables , both must be short ; if it has one syllable , the syllable must be long ...
... bars . Each of the bars has two ' Weilen ' ( hebung and senkung ) . These two ' Weilen ' are represented by two syllables or by one . If a bar has two syllables , both must be short ; if it has one syllable , the syllable must be long ...
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... bars ' , since the four beats fall at about equal intervals . Since each foot begins with an arsis and the anacrusis may be present or absent according to the poet's taste , the verse is not iambic but trochaic . Schipper ( EM I , 259 ...
... bars ' , since the four beats fall at about equal intervals . Since each foot begins with an arsis and the anacrusis may be present or absent according to the poet's taste , the verse is not iambic but trochaic . Schipper ( EM I , 259 ...
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... bars , which gene- rally follows a riming couplet of verses with four bars in a stanza with tail - rime ( 176 ) , e.g. Lustne alle a lutel prowe , 50 þat wolle ou selue yknowe , ynwys baly | be : Ichulle telle ou ase y con , hou holy ...
... bars , which gene- rally follows a riming couplet of verses with four bars in a stanza with tail - rime ( 176 ) , e.g. Lustne alle a lutel prowe , 50 þat wolle ou selue yknowe , ynwys baly | be : Ichulle telle ou ase y con , hou holy ...
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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 þat