A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... rhythmical arrangement is based . Since , however , a poet seldom wholly creates his form , but generally uses metrical forms long traditional or taken from some foreign literature without alteration , or alters them for his especial ...
... rhythmical arrangement is based . Since , however , a poet seldom wholly creates his form , but generally uses metrical forms long traditional or taken from some foreign literature without alteration , or alters them for his especial ...
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... Rhythmical Construction of Alliterative Verse . No account of the construction of alliterative verse has been handed down to us from early times . Various theories have been advanced in order to explain the peculiarities of OE ...
... Rhythmical Construction of Alliterative Verse . No account of the construction of alliterative verse has been handed down to us from early times . Various theories have been advanced in order to explain the peculiarities of OE ...
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... Rhythmical Structure of Lagamon's Verse : a ) Schipper . There are various opinions with regard to the rhythmical structure of Lagamon's verse , especially with regard to the number of beats to be assigned to it . Schipper , who assigns ...
... Rhythmical Structure of Lagamon's Verse : a ) Schipper . There are various opinions with regard to the rhythmical structure of Lagamon's verse , especially with regard to the number of beats to be assigned to it . Schipper , who assigns ...
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