A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... scheme ) . One long syllable may be used for two short ones , for ( shown by in the verse scheme ) . In the feet of three beats the middle member , origin- ally of two moren , can be contracted to one more ; this can be represented by a ...
... scheme ) . One long syllable may be used for two short ones , for ( shown by in the verse scheme ) . In the feet of three beats the middle member , origin- ally of two moren , can be contracted to one more ; this can be represented by a ...
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... scheme , which they never fully suppress ( § 187 ) . But Skeat ( Chaucer's Works VI , LXXXIII ff . ) and Bridges ... scheme , which forms the foundation . It is by a combination of both , by the conflict between the uniform rhythmical ...
... scheme , which they never fully suppress ( § 187 ) . But Skeat ( Chaucer's Works VI , LXXXIII ff . ) and Bridges ... scheme , which forms the foundation . It is by a combination of both , by the conflict between the uniform rhythmical ...
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... scheme of the triolet is A Ba Aab AB , of the roundel A Bba a b A Bab ba AB ( the repeated verses are shown by capitals ) . In the rondeau only the initial words of the first verse ( a ) are repeated after the eighth and thir- teenth ...
... scheme of the triolet is A Ba Aab AB , of the roundel A Bba a b A Bab ba AB ( the repeated verses are shown by capitals ) . In the rondeau only the initial words of the first verse ( a ) are repeated after the eighth and thir- teenth ...
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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 žat