A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... Regular Short Rimed Couplet : a ) The Latin Hymn - verse . From the freer rimed couplet , derived from OE . alliterative verse , which we have seen in Brut , Proverbs of Alfred and King Horn must be dis- tinguished the regular short ...
... Regular Short Rimed Couplet : a ) The Latin Hymn - verse . From the freer rimed couplet , derived from OE . alliterative verse , which we have seen in Brut , Proverbs of Alfred and King Horn must be dis- tinguished the regular short ...
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... regular French verse , the heroic couplet in the hands of Sandys , Waller , Denham , and others becomes more regular , so that enjambement and rime breaking entirely dis- appear , and inverted accent and hovering accent are as far as ...
... regular French verse , the heroic couplet in the hands of Sandys , Waller , Denham , and others becomes more regular , so that enjambement and rime breaking entirely dis- appear , and inverted accent and hovering accent are as far as ...
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... Regular Pindaric Odes . 369 In the English imitations of the Pindaric odes verses of various lengths and varying rime positions are connected to form stanzas . The regular Pindaric ode consists of groups of three stanzas , of which the ...
... Regular Pindaric Odes . 369 In the English imitations of the Pindaric odes verses of various lengths and varying rime positions are connected to form stanzas . The regular Pindaric ode consists of groups of three stanzas , of which the ...
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