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Page 117
... Olaus Wormius , appears to be a sound one . It seems to me a simple deduction from one more general . The alli- terative syllables of an Anglo - Saxon verse rhimed , I be- lieve , only with the initial consonants . In very few instances ...
... Olaus Wormius , appears to be a sound one . It seems to me a simple deduction from one more general . The alli- terative syllables of an Anglo - Saxon verse rhimed , I be- lieve , only with the initial consonants . In very few instances ...
Page 125
... Olaus Wormius , the consonantal rhime will suffice in the first section ; but in the second , there must be a correspondence both between the vowels and the final consonants . The same rule applies to Anglo - Saxon verse . The origin of ...
... Olaus Wormius , the consonantal rhime will suffice in the first section ; but in the second , there must be a correspondence both between the vowels and the final consonants . The same rule applies to Anglo - Saxon verse . The origin of ...
Page 141
... Olaus Wormius laid down for the regulation of Scandinavian verse . The passage is familiar to all who interest themselves in these matters , and was quoted by Hickes . The merit then of Rask must lie in their appli- cation . Do the same ...
... Olaus Wormius laid down for the regulation of Scandinavian verse . The passage is familiar to all who interest themselves in these matters , and was quoted by Hickes . The merit then of Rask must lie in their appli- cation . Do the same ...
Page 144
... Olaus Wormius wished to provide against a violation of this rule , when he laid it down , that the rhiming syllables of a section must not follow each other immediately . There is , however , one exception , an exception which seems to ...
... Olaus Wormius wished to provide against a violation of this rule , when he laid it down , that the rhiming syllables of a section must not follow each other immediately . There is , however , one exception , an exception which seems to ...
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accented syllable adjective alliteration alliterative couplet Anglo-Saxon poems Anglo-Saxon verse Bonduca Bruce Burns Cadmon Cæd century Chau Chaucer common compound section Comus consonant couplet Cynthia's Revels dialects dipthong dissyllable doth doubt dramatists Drayton elided elision English rhythms eyes final rhime five accents Fletcher four accents gret hath House of Fame Jons King Knightes Tale L'Allegro lable language Latin Layamon Lear letters Lord metre middle pause Milton occasionally Olaus Wormius old English orthography Othello Ploughman poetry poets preposition Prol pronounced pronunciation Puttenham quantity rare rhime rhiming syllables rule Sackville sectional pause short vowel Shrew Siege of Leith six accents sometimes Song sound Spenser substantive thee ther thou three accents triple measure tumbling verse Tusser unaccented syllable verb verse of four verse of six Verses beginning verses of five vowel wæs Wallace word writers