A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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Page 79
... Feminine Ending . 79 own independent stress , as we see in the use of compounds míddan - géard , morgen - léoht etc. at the end of Sievers ' type B , hilde - wápnum etc. in Sievers ' type A. The foot of three members , which Sievers ...
... Feminine Ending . 79 own independent stress , as we see in the use of compounds míddan - géard , morgen - léoht etc. at the end of Sievers ' type B , hilde - wápnum etc. in Sievers ' type A. The foot of three members , which Sievers ...
Page 155
... feminine ending ( -x ) e.g. lore : more dede : rede etc. , occasionally uux e.g. heuene : seuene 27 f . , icorene : iborene 105 f . , and we must , as said above , look on these endings as ' of two members ' . -- The first half - line ...
... feminine ending ( -x ) e.g. lore : more dede : rede etc. , occasionally uux e.g. heuene : seuene 27 f . , icorene : iborene 105 f . , and we must , as said above , look on these endings as ' of two members ' . -- The first half - line ...
Page 269
... ending . Since in ME . feminine rime was chiefly based on the use of the final syllables -e , e ( n ) , -es , -ed ( cp . extracts from Chaucer § 186 ) , the loss of these final syllables has caused the NE . verse - ending , especially ...
... ending . Since in ME . feminine rime was chiefly based on the use of the final syllables -e , e ( n ) , -es , -ed ( cp . extracts from Chaucer § 186 ) , the loss of these final syllables has caused the NE . verse - ending , especially ...
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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