A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... compounds of three members lux in ' shortened ' E verses ( type 54 : beag - hroden cưēn ) . The A2 verses are most common in the first half - line ( 102 + 14 ) . In the second half - line are found only those compounds , which were no ...
... compounds of three members lux in ' shortened ' E verses ( type 54 : beag - hroden cưēn ) . The A2 verses are most common in the first half - line ( 102 + 14 ) . In the second half - line are found only those compounds , which were no ...
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... compounds -lux , uulux , xl_x , _l_x , uul_x , uuluux ( geār - dagum -mere - faran -hron - rade , lof - dedum să ... Compounds of the form lu_x . _I__x , _luu_x ___ ( andswarode , peod - cyninga — să - līđende unlifigende - sele ...
... compounds -lux , uulux , xl_x , _l_x , uul_x , uuluux ( geār - dagum -mere - faran -hron - rade , lof - dedum să ... Compounds of the form lu_x . _I__x , _luu_x ___ ( andswarode , peod - cyninga — să - līđende unlifigende - sele ...
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... compounds of double conception . In the sec- ond half - line . where only simple alliteration is allowed . only compounds of simple conception can be used in A2 or D1 verses according to this rule . In D1 verses , also . simple words of ...
... compounds of double conception . In the sec- ond half - line . where only simple alliteration is allowed . only compounds of simple conception can be used in A2 or D1 verses according to this rule . In D1 verses , also . simple words of ...
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