A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... compound alone or with a following prefix may form the middle foot ( type 37 : wes pu | Hrōdgar | hal and 38 : pā him | Hrōdgar gewāt ) ; but this compound must be a proper name or a compound ' of simple conception ' as fyrwyt , gūrsecg ...
... compound alone or with a following prefix may form the middle foot ( type 37 : wes pu | Hrōdgar | hal and 38 : pā him | Hrōdgar gewāt ) ; but this compound must be a proper name or a compound ' of simple conception ' as fyrwyt , gūrsecg ...
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... compound __x or ul_x ( type 55 : weord- myndum pah , 56 : wlite - beorhtne wang ) . In each case a prefix or an unstressed monosyllable may follow ( type 57 : Welandes geweorc . 58 : atelinga gedriht , 59 : an - fealdne gepōht , 60 ...
... compound __x or ul_x ( type 55 : weord- myndum pah , 56 : wlite - beorhtne wang ) . In each case a prefix or an unstressed monosyllable may follow ( type 57 : Welandes geweorc . 58 : atelinga gedriht , 59 : an - fealdne gepōht , 60 ...
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... compound lux , x_x or uul_x ( type 64 : in geār - dagum , 65 : ofer hron - rāde , 66 : ofer lagu - strate ) . But two independent words , closely connected grammatically , may be united to form a foot of three members . These may be a ...
... compound lux , x_x or uul_x ( type 64 : in geār - dagum , 65 : ofer hron - rāde , 66 : ofer lagu - strate ) . But two independent words , closely connected grammatically , may be united to form a foot of three members . These may be a ...
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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