A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... disyllabic masculine ' verses , i.e. verses which end with two short syllables , although these can belong to quite different types , as Sievers had rightly shown . In types B and E the two short syllables are resolved stresses of a ...
... disyllabic masculine ' verses , i.e. verses which end with two short syllables , although these can belong to quite different types , as Sievers had rightly shown . In types B and E the two short syllables are resolved stresses of a ...
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... disyllabic word , with a short root - syllable , at the end of the verse , in order to scan with four beats . Verses such as : land gesāwon , him pā Scyld gewāt , fyrst ford gewāt , sa - bāt gesæt , gegrētte pā , gehroden golde , in ...
... disyllabic word , with a short root - syllable , at the end of the verse , in order to scan with four beats . Verses such as : land gesāwon , him pā Scyld gewāt , fyrst ford gewāt , sa - bāt gesæt , gegrētte pā , gehroden golde , in ...
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... disyllabic foot may be composed of two independent words , of which the first is a monosyllabic strongly stressed word of the form or ux , the second a prefix or a more weakly stressed monosyllabic word . It is rare that the second ...
... disyllabic foot may be composed of two independent words , of which the first is a monosyllabic strongly stressed word of the form or ux , the second a prefix or a more weakly stressed monosyllabic word . It is rare that the second ...
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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