This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...correctly than the short-lines of the cauda: for example, in Schipper's Grd. d. Metrik p. 94 there are two illustrative caudae with no alliteration the concluding line (omitted by Shipper) in Sus. has alliteration, but that in Rauf Coil. has not. When the last step was taken and the cauda itself, doubled once or twice, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...correctly than the short-lines of the cauda: for example, in Schipper's Grd. d. Metrik p. 94 there are two illustrative caudae with no alliteration the concluding line (omitted by Shipper) in Sus. has alliteration, but that in Rauf Coil. has not. When the last step was taken and the cauda itself, doubled once or twice, was used as a stanza31--and thus the parent longline was wholly discarded to the advantage of its off-spring shortlines, --alliteration is preserved least faithfully of all: study, for example, the stanza from the Disticha Caionis given by Schipper p. 97-8. Similarly in the early drama, when free-rhythm is used with rime, there again appears a wholly capricious use of alliteration: in some lines it is profusely applied, in others it is almost abandoned. The Towneley Plays, for example (especially in the plays of Noah, the Shepherds, Herod, and the Buffeting), have the old free-rhythm rimed but alliterating most irregularly. And Schipper p. 106 shows us an eight-line stanza from Bales' Thre Lowes with no alliteration at all. As this illustration is very late, however, let us return to the earlier Sir Degrevant, Sir Perceval, Rouland and Vernagu, and The Feest,32 where we find many examples of the long or shorter cauda stanza with little 11 See Schipper, 0. d. E. M., p. 97, 57; Luick, Anglia, XII, p. 440. -' Luick, Anglia, XII, 440 ff. alliteration, although the rhythm is clearly the native two-stress movement. Luick gives" the second stanza of Sir Degrevant, in which but seven lines out of the sixteen are provided with alliteration. For another example, here is the fourth stanza of Rouktnd and Vemagu, marked as we should scan it: 1 Alle bat leued in godes lawe34 He l6te hem bobe h6ng and drilwe.35 3 bo bat he mijt of take; and ...
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