A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... sound . This sound is different from the first alliterating sound . The scheme is ab : ab , e.g. Hwat we Gar - Dena in gear - dagum Beow . 1 hilde - wpnum ond heado - wadum 39 lagu - cræftig mon lond - gemyrcu 209 . Opinions differ with ...
... sound . This sound is different from the first alliterating sound . The scheme is ab : ab , e.g. Hwat we Gar - Dena in gear - dagum Beow . 1 hilde - wpnum ond heado - wadum 39 lagu - cræftig mon lond - gemyrcu 209 . Opinions differ with ...
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... sound in two or more consecutive verses is avoided . Since certain sounds frequently alliterate , e.g. vowels , h ... sound is used in con- secutive How frequently the various Sounds alliterate Variety in Alliteration.
... sound in two or more consecutive verses is avoided . Since certain sounds frequently alliterate , e.g. vowels , h ... sound is used in con- secutive How frequently the various Sounds alliterate Variety in Alliteration.
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... sound twenty times . Once even three consecutive verses ( 897-899 ) have the same alliterating sound . Generally the verses are separated by a pause and belong to separate para- graphs , so that the sameness of the alliteration . does ...
... sound twenty times . Once even three consecutive verses ( 897-899 ) have the same alliterating sound . Generally the verses are separated by a pause and belong to separate para- graphs , so that the sameness of the alliteration . does ...
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