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
A + A1 : _How =w=ýsdom thórowe =w=ántonnesse | =v=ányisshyth a=w=áy._
ib. 2579-80.
A + A1 : _Behóld, I práy you, | sée where they áre._
Four Elements, Dodsl. i. 10.
BC + A1 : _I am your =é=ldest són, | =É=sau by my náme._
Jacob and Esau, ib. ii. 249.
3. Lines without anacrusis in the first section and with anacrusis in
the second; likewise chiefly represented by the types A (A1) + A (A1),
rarely by A (A1) + B C (B C1):
A + A1 : _Méasure contínwyth | prospérite and wélthe._
Skelton, Magn. 142.
A1 + A : _Méasure and Í | will néuer be devýdyd._ ib. 188.
A + A1 : _=S=íghing and =s=óbbing | they =w=éep and they =w=áil._
Gammer Gurton's Needle, Prol.
A + A : _Ésau is gíven | to =l=óose and lewd =l=íving._
Jacob and Esau, Dodsl. ii. 196.
A1 + A1 : _Líving in this =w=órld | from the =w=ést to the éast._
Roister Doister, III. iii. 28.
A + A1 : _Chárge and enfórce hym | in the wáyes of vs to go._
Bale, Laws, line 102.
A + A : _Quáerite judícium, | subveníte opprésso._
Bale, Johan, p. 6.
A + B C : _=F=ór by con=f=éssion | the holy =f=áther knóweth._
ib. p. 11.
A + B C1: _=D=ó they so in =d=éde? | Well, they shall not =d=ó so
lónge._ ib. p. 97.
4. Lines without anacrusis in either section, so that they are wholly
dactylic in rhythm, only represented by A (A1) + A1 (A):
A + A : _Sáncte Francísse | óra pro nóbis!_
Bale, Johan, p. 25.
A + A : _Péace, for with my spéctables | vádam et vidébo._
ib. p. 30.
A + A : _Sýr, without ány | lónger délyaunce._
Skelton, Magn. 239.
A + A1 : _Wín her or lóse her, | =t=rý you the =t=ráp._
Appius and Virginia, Dodsl. iv. 132.
A + A1 : _Líkewise for a cómmonwealth | óccupied is hé._
Four Elements, ib. i. 9.
A + A1 : _Whát, you sáucy | málapert knáve._
Jack Juggler, ib. ii. 145.
The numerical preponderance of types A + A1 is at once perceptible, and
usually these two types of hemistichs are combined in this order to form
a long line.
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