A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... Stanza abababab . § 172 . " 99 77 ababbcbc XIII 216 218 § 173. Twelve - line Stanzas ababababbcbc , ababababcded 219 § 174. The Tristrem Stanza ababababybe . . § 175. Thirteen - line Stanza ababababydddc . § 176. Tail - rime Stanza ...
... Stanza abababab . § 172 . " 99 77 ababbcbc XIII 216 218 § 173. Twelve - line Stanzas ababababbcbc , ababababcded 219 § 174. The Tristrem Stanza ababababybe . . § 175. Thirteen - line Stanza ababababydddc . § 176. Tail - rime Stanza ...
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... Stanza . It is essential that with the close of each stanza the train of thoughts should come to an end , i.e. there should be a pause . It is true that this rule is not always obeyed , and that a sentence of one stanza runs on into the ...
... Stanza . It is essential that with the close of each stanza the train of thoughts should come to an end , i.e. there should be a pause . It is true that this rule is not always obeyed , and that a sentence of one stanza runs on into the ...
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... stanza ( a b a bbcbc , § 195 ) , the Spenserian stanza , ( derived from the Chaucerian ) a babbcbc c6 § 239 , the six - line stanza of Venus and Adonis ( a ba b c c § 236 ) and in the Shakespearean sonnet ( abab cdcd efef gg § 248 ) ...
... stanza ( a b a bbcbc , § 195 ) , the Spenserian stanza , ( derived from the Chaucerian ) a babbcbc c6 § 239 , the six - line stanza of Venus and Adonis ( a ba b c c § 236 ) and in the Shakespearean sonnet ( abab cdcd efef gg § 248 ) ...
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