A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... consisting of four long or eight short lines , similar to the ON . formyrdislag , was known in OE . poetry , yet , on the other hand , Möller goes too far , in his attempt to reduce the whole Beowulf and the other remnants of the OE ...
... consisting of four long or eight short lines , similar to the ON . formyrdislag , was known in OE . poetry , yet , on the other hand , Möller goes too far , in his attempt to reduce the whole Beowulf and the other remnants of the OE ...
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... consists generally of a simple word of the form - or ux ( types 41-43 : blad wide sprang , flota stille bād , grētte ... consist of a monosyllabic word with a following prefix ( 46-48 : first ford gewāt , werod eall ārās , lēoda land ...
... consists generally of a simple word of the form - or ux ( types 41-43 : blad wide sprang , flota stille bād , grētte ... consist of a monosyllabic word with a following prefix ( 46-48 : first ford gewāt , werod eall ārās , lēoda land ...
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... consists of 9 six - line stanzas , which can be divided into 2X8 or 4X4 verses . The legend De Erkenwalde ( Horst- mann , Altengl . Legenden , Neue Folge 1881 , p . 266 ff . ) consists of 11 sections of 32 lines , which fall into ...
... consists of 9 six - line stanzas , which can be divided into 2X8 or 4X4 verses . The legend De Erkenwalde ( Horst- mann , Altengl . Legenden , Neue Folge 1881 , p . 266 ff . ) consists of 11 sections of 32 lines , which fall into ...
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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