A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... kind of verse or stanza may have been preferred , whilst at another time another kind may have been in favour . The prosody of the modern English period , therefore , may be viewed as a whole . For the prosody of the ME . period ...
... kind of verse or stanza may have been preferred , whilst at another time another kind may have been in favour . The prosody of the modern English period , therefore , may be viewed as a whole . For the prosody of the ME . period ...
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... kind of verse is found 77 + 134 times ; thus in the first half - line 2/3 , in the second 3 % of all B verses ( 113 +220 ) are of this kind . A word of this kind may be followed by a prefix ( type 32 : he pas | frōfre gebud ) or by a ...
... kind of verse is found 77 + 134 times ; thus in the first half - line 2/3 , in the second 3 % of all B verses ( 113 +220 ) are of this kind . A word of this kind may be followed by a prefix ( type 32 : he pas | frōfre gebud ) or by a ...
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... kind of rime is especially common in derivative syllables of romance words , e.g. a ) citee : pitee nature : creature entencioun : religioun . b ) countenaunce : maintenaunce , c ) nacioun : consolacioun confusioun conclusioun ...
... kind of rime is especially common in derivative syllables of romance words , e.g. a ) citee : pitee nature : creature entencioun : religioun . b ) countenaunce : maintenaunce , c ) nacioun : consolacioun confusioun conclusioun ...
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 žat