Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 16 AIL 1517 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Alliterative Verse
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The idea
Old English verse is built on stressed syllables sharing an opening consonant across a line, with a pause at the line's middle. The glossary has no headword for alliterative verse or for that pause. Unit six defined alliteration and caesura separately.
In practice
Stresses alliterate across the line.
Where people slip
A pause divides each line.
Your place on the trail
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