A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... original verse of the form ×××××××× , viz . one ' more ' ( x ) only of the original verse corresponds to the monosyllabic final thesis of his types , two ' moren ' ( xx ) to the inner thesis of one or two syllables , and three ' moren ...
... original verse of the form ×××××××× , viz . one ' more ' ( x ) only of the original verse corresponds to the monosyllabic final thesis of his types , two ' moren ' ( xx ) to the inner thesis of one or two syllables , and three ' moren ...
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... original and normal form , whilst the contraction of two moren ×× to form one long- rence , which does not disturb the division into bars . Möller's chief objection to Sievers ' system is that Sievers makes no attempt to trace his five ...
... original and normal form , whilst the contraction of two moren ×× to form one long- rence , which does not disturb the division into bars . Möller's chief objection to Sievers ' system is that Sievers makes no attempt to trace his five ...
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... original verse . Just as Sievers derives his types of four members we can derive ours of four beats from a common Indo - Germanic original verse of the form xxx ×××××× . As the four beats were variously graduated in stress , in ...
... original verse . Just as Sievers derives his types of four members we can derive ours of four beats from a common Indo - Germanic original verse of the form xxx ×××××× . As the four beats were variously graduated in stress , in ...
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