A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... Types § 55. Derivation from a Common Indo - Germanic origi- nal Verse § 56. Kögel . . . § 57. Trautmann . § 58 ... Types 1-10 ( Sievers ' A § 67. Types 11-20 ( Sievers ' A2 ) · § 68. Types 21-28 ( Sievers ' A3 ) • § 69. Types 29. 30 ( A4 ) ...
... Types § 55. Derivation from a Common Indo - Germanic origi- nal Verse § 56. Kögel . . . § 57. Trautmann . § 58 ... Types 1-10 ( Sievers ' A § 67. Types 11-20 ( Sievers ' A2 ) · § 68. Types 21-28 ( Sievers ' A3 ) • § 69. Types 29. 30 ( A4 ) ...
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... types 32 and 34 ) that a prefix within the verse is commoner in the second half- line , which in general is more ... ( types 2 and 3 or 5 and 6 ) . - § 67. Types 11-20 ( Sievers ' A2 ) . The types 11-20 ( Sievers ' A2 ) include those A ...
... types 32 and 34 ) that a prefix within the verse is commoner in the second half- line , which in general is more ... ( types 2 and 3 or 5 and 6 ) . - § 67. Types 11-20 ( Sievers ' A2 ) . The types 11-20 ( Sievers ' A2 ) include those A ...
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... Types 41-50 ( Sievers ' D2 ) . - - -X In the types 41-50 ( Sievers ' D2 ) the first member is a strongly stressed word , which therefore allit- erates , of the form or ux or -x . Since the di- syllabic word with a short root - syllable ...
... Types 41-50 ( Sievers ' D2 ) . - - -X In the types 41-50 ( Sievers ' D2 ) the first member is a strongly stressed word , which therefore allit- erates , of the form or ux or -x . Since the di- syllabic word with a short root - syllable ...
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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