A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... occur more often in Heliand ; cp . tho sagda he | waldande thank Hel . 475. The B verses occur about twice as often in the second half - line as in the first . § 72. Types 41-50 ( Sievers ' D2 ) . - - -X In the types 41-50 ( Sievers ...
... occur more often in Heliand ; cp . tho sagda he | waldande thank Hel . 475. The B verses occur about twice as often in the second half - line as in the first . § 72. Types 41-50 ( Sievers ' D2 ) . - - -X In the types 41-50 ( Sievers ...
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... occurs in 10-12 % of all verses , then come ƒ and g each 7-9 % , m , l , b each 5—7 % , d , þ 2-4 % , lastly r , n , c , t , sc , st each 1 % . The combination sp occurs only once in Beowulf , v . 873 ( see § 97 ) , and p does not occur ...
... occurs in 10-12 % of all verses , then come ƒ and g each 7-9 % , m , l , b each 5—7 % , d , þ 2-4 % , lastly r , n , c , t , sc , st each 1 % . The combination sp occurs only once in Beowulf , v . 873 ( see § 97 ) , and p does not occur ...
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... occur ( xxx for xx ) , so in ana- paestic verse the opposite takes place . But the two types can be easily ... occurs singly it must be uttered slowly . Anapaestic verse gives the impression of gallop- ing , although an anapaestic verse ...
... occur ( xxx for xx ) , so in ana- paestic verse the opposite takes place . But the two types can be easily ... occurs singly it must be uttered slowly . Anapaestic verse gives the impression of gallop- ing , although an anapaestic verse ...
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