A History of English VersificationSchipper, J. (Jakob)
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A History of English Versification
Schipper, J. (Jakob)
English language -- Versification; English poetry -- History and criticism
1. Lines with anacrusis in both hemistichs. These are the most numerous
of all, and are chiefly represented by the combinations of types A(A1)
+ A(A1), A(A1) + B C1(B C):
A + A : _For by méasure, i wárne you, | we thýnke to be gýdyd._
Skelt. Magn. 186.
A + A1 : _For =m=ýschefe wyl =m=áyster vs, | yf =m=éasure vs forsáke._
ib. 156.
A1 + B C: _Full gréat I do abhór | this your wícked sáying._
Lusty Juventus, Dodsl. ii. 72.
A1 + B C1: _You may =s=áy you were =s=íck, | and your héad did áche,
That you lústed not this níght | any súpper máke._
Jack Juggler, ib. ii. 119.
A1 + A1 : _And you nóthing regárd | what of mé may betíde?_
Jacob and Esau, ib. ii. 216.
A1 + B C1: _Our láwes are all óne, | though you do thré apére._
Bale, Laws, line 63.
A + A1 : _Whome =d=áyly the =d=éuyll | to great sýnne doth allúre._
ib. 747.
A1 + B C1: _By hým haue I góte | thys fowle dyséase of bódye,_
A1 + A : _And, ás ye se hére, | am now thrówne in a léprye._
ib. 749-50.
A1 + B C : _Regárde not the pópe, | not yet hys whórysh kýngedom._
ib. 770.
A1 + A1 : _Such lúbbers, as háth | dysgysed =h=éads in their
=h=óodes._ Bale, Johan, p. 2.
A + A : _Peccávi mea cúlpa: | I submýt me to yowr hólynes._
ib. p. 62.
A + A : _With =á=ll the =ó=fsprynge, | of =Á=ntichristes
generácyon._ ib. p. 102.
A + B C1 : _Maister Ráufe Royster =D=óyster | is but =d=éad and gón._
Roister Doister, I. i. 43.
C + A : _And as thré téachers, | to hým we yow dyréct._
Bale, Laws, l. 67.
C + B C1 : _Of their =f=írst =f=rédome, | to their most hýgh decáye._
ib. 82.
A1 + C1 : _Such an óther is nót | in the whóle sóuth._ ib. 1066.
2. Lines with anacrusis in the first section and without it in the
second. These are almost exclusively represented by the combination
A(A1) + A(A1); rarely by B C1(B C) + A(A1):
A + A1 : _For wélthe without méasure | =s=ódenly wyll =s=lýde._
Skelton, Magn. 194.
A + A1 : _Howe sódenly =w=órldly | =w=élth dothe dekáy,_
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