Features of alliterative-rhyming lines
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105
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64.
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Structures of the cauda
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105
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65.
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Two-beat lines in tail-rhyme stanzas
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106
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66.
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Rhyming alliterative lines in Mystery Plays
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108
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67.
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Alliteration in Moralities and Interludes
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109
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68.
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Four-beat scansion of Bale’s verses
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110
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69.
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Examples of the presence or absence of anacrusis in the two hemistichs
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110
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70.
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Entire tail-rhyme stanzas
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113
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71.
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Irregular tail-rhyme stanzas: Skeltonic verse
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114
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C. Revival of the Four-beat Alliterative Verse in the Modern English Period.
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72.
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Examples from Gascoigne, Wyatt, Spenser, &c.
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117
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73.
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Attempted modern revival of the old four-beat alliterative line without rhyme
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119
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74.
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Examples of the development of the four-beat alliterative line in reversed chronological order
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120
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75.
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Summing-up of the evidence
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124
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PART II. FOREIGN METRES
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DIVISION I. THE FOREIGN METRES IN GENERAL
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CHAPTER V
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INTRODUCTION AND THE STRUCTURE OF VERSE
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§
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76.
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Influence of French and Low Latin metres
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126
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77.
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The different kinds of line
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127
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78.
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The breaking up of long lines
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128
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79.
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Heroic verse; tail-rhyme staves
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131
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80.
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Different kinds of caesura
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131
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81.
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Causes of variation in the structure of metres of equal measures
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133
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CHAPTER VI
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VERSE-RHYTHM AND THE STRUCTURE OF VERSE
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§
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82.
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Lines with and without diaeresis
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135
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83.
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Effect of diaeresis on modulation
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136
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84.
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Suppression of the anacrusis
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137
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85.
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Level stress, or ‘hovering accent’
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138
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86.
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Absence of thesis in the interior of a line
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139
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87.
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Lengthening of a word by introduction of unaccented extra syllable
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141
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88.
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Inversion of rhythm
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141
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89.
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Disyllabic or polysyllabic thesis
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143
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90.
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Epic caesura
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145
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91.
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Double or feminine endings
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146
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92.
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Enjambement, or run-on line
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147
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93.
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Rhyme-breaking
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148
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94.
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Alliteration
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149
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CHAPTER VII
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THE METRICAL TREATMENT OF SYLLABLES
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§
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95.
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General remarks on formative and inflexional syllables
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151
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96.
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Treatment of the unaccented e of words of three and four syllables in Middle English
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152
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97.
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Special remarks on individual inflexional endings
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154
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98.
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Treatment of -en
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