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alliterative verse: a standalone construct

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Poetics

verse whose line is bound by alliteration on stressed syllables within a stress-based meter, as in Old and Middle English poetry.

In poetics, alliterative verse refers to verse whose line is bound by alliteration on stressed syllables within a stress-based meter, as in Old and Middle English poetry. This meaning comes from Cable (1991) in The English Alliterative Tradition.[1]

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alliteration1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct line4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs meter2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Cable, T. (1991). The English Alliterative Tradition. University of Pennsylvania Press. https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512803853

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