A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... romance words , too , rimes with root - syllables to [ î ] or [ ai ] , e.g. company : sea victory : dye lie etc. - - - - enmity : Many other syllables with secondary stress in romance words rime with root - syllables , e.g. battle- ment ...
... romance words , too , rimes with root - syllables to [ î ] or [ ai ] , e.g. company : sea victory : dye lie etc. - - - - enmity : Many other syllables with secondary stress in romance words rime with root - syllables , e.g. battle- ment ...
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... romances the twelve - line tail - rime stanza could be interchanged with stanzas with six , nine and fifteen lines ... romance it is easy to reconstruct the twelve - line stanza for the whole poem ; cp . my edition of Libeaus Desconus ...
... romances the twelve - line tail - rime stanza could be interchanged with stanzas with six , nine and fifteen lines ... romance it is easy to reconstruct the twelve - line stanza for the whole poem ; cp . my edition of Libeaus Desconus ...
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... Romance words are treated in the same way . The chief stress , which was originally on the second syllable was gradually moved to the first syllable in English . In rime these words are always stressed on the second syllable , e.g. ...
... Romance words are treated in the same way . The chief stress , which was originally on the second syllable was gradually moved to the first syllable in English . In rime these words are always stressed on the second syllable , e.g. ...
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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