A Short History of English Versification, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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Common terms and phrases
accent Alden alexandrine alliteration alliterative verse anacrusis anapaestic arsis arsis and thesis Beow Beowulf blank verse caesura Chaucer Chaucerian stanza compounds consonant D¹ verses disyllabic double alliteration dramas Engl English prosody English verse enjambement feet feminine endings four beats gode half-verse hath hebungen heroic couplet heroic verse hexameters hwile iambic King Horn lables Lagamon's long-line Luick masculine endings metre metrical monosyllabic number of syllables o'er ofer poems poetry poets quatrains rare regular rhythm rhythmical structure rima rimed verse root-syllable scheme Schipper Schwellverse sẽ second half-line septenary seven-line Shakespeare short rimed couplet short syllables Sievers sixteenth century sonnet Spenserian stanza strongly stressed words Swinburne tail-rime stanza thee thesis thou three beats three members trochaic trochaic verses trochee two-beat theory types unrimed unstressed syllables verse of four verse-ending verses of five vowel weakly stressed words whilst þā þat