A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... verse ; whilst in the second half - line there can be one alliterating sound only , which must be as far as possible at the beginning of the verse . Moreover in general the first half - verse is rather longer ( ' sprachlich etwas ...
... verse ; whilst in the second half - line there can be one alliterating sound only , which must be as far as possible at the beginning of the verse . Moreover in general the first half - verse is rather longer ( ' sprachlich etwas ...
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... half - verse and generally in the first also the alliteration is on the first arsis : him on bearme læg par æt hide stod ; in the first half - verse the second arsis also can alliterate : under Heorotes hrōf . § 32. Type C. Type C ×× is ...
... half - verse and generally in the first also the alliteration is on the first arsis : him on bearme læg par æt hide stod ; in the first half - verse the second arsis also can alliterate : under Heorotes hrōf . § 32. Type C. Type C ×× is ...
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... half - verse the alliteration is not confined to the beginning of the verse . Sometimes , too , alliteration is not used to connect the two half - verses , but is confined to one half - verse . Thus alliteration gradually sank from ...
... half - verse the alliteration is not confined to the beginning of the verse . Sometimes , too , alliteration is not used to connect the two half - verses , but is confined to one half - verse . Thus alliteration gradually sank from ...
Contents
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