The OE. end rhymes are either (_a_) complete rhymes as _hond: rond_, _gefǣ́gon: geþǣ́gon_, or (_b_) assonances, in which only the vowels correspond, as _wæf: læs_ El. 1238; _wrā́ðum: ā́rum_ Crist. 595; _lúfodon: wúnedon_ And. 870; that the assonances are not accidental is clear from the fact that they occur alongside of perfect rhymes.[95] NOTES: [15] Tacitus, _Germania_, cap. 2. [16] Grein-Wülker, iii. 1, p. 156. [17] The influence of the Latin system on Otfrid is clear from his own words, I. i. 21. [18] For a review of recent metrical theories see Sievers, _Altgermanische Metrik_, 1893, pp. 2-17, and his article on metre in Paul's _Grundriss_, ii. 2. [19] Cf. Lachmann, 'Über althochdeutsche Betonung und Verskunst,' _Schriften_, ii. 358 ff., and 'Über das Hildebrandslied', _ib._, ii. 407 ff. [20] _Germania_, iii, p. 7. [21] _Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum_, i, p. 318, and _de Carmine Wessofontano_, 1861, p. 10. [22] _De Anglo-Saxonum arte metrica_, 1871. [23] 'Grundzüge der altgermanischen Metrik,' _Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie_, ii. 114 ff. [24] _Ibid._, iii. 280 ff. [25] _Zur althochdeutschen Alliterationspoesie_, Kiel and Leipzig. [26] John Lawrence, _Chapters on Alliterative Verse_, London, 1893; reviewed by K. Luick, _Anglia_, Beiblatt iv, pp. 193, 201. [27] Möller's own notation; Lawrence's sign for the rest is a small point, and his sign for the end of a section is a thick point. [28] _Untersuchungen zur westgermanischen Verskunst_ I, Leipzig, 1889; 'Zur Metrik des alts. und althochd. Alliterationsverses,' _Germania_, xxxvi. 139 ff., 279 ff.; 'Der altdeutsche Reimvers und sein Verhältnis zur Alliterationspoesie,' _Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum_, xxxviii. 304 ff. [29] _Die Metrik des westgermanischen Alliterationsverses_, Marburg, 1892. [30] Paul's _Grundriss der germanischen Philologie_, ed. I, ii. i. 518. [31] _Der altenglische Vers_: I. _Kritik der bisherigen Theorien_, 1894; II. _Die Metrik des Beowulfliedes_, 1894; III. _Die Metrik der sog. Caedmonischen Dichtungen_, &c., 1895. This last part is by F. Graz. These are reviewed by K. Luick, _Anglia_, Beiblatt iv. 294; M. Trautmann, ib., iv. 131; vi. 1-4; Saran, _Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie_, xxvii. 539. [32] _Geschichte der deutschen Litteratur_, 1894, i. 228, and _Ergänzungsheft zu Band I, Die altsächsische Genesis_, 1895, p. 28 ff. [33] 'Zur Kenntniss des germanischen Verses, vornehmlich des altenglischen,' in _Anglia_, Beiblatt v. 87 ff. [34] _Z. f. d. A._, xxxviii. 304. [35] _Certayne notes of Instruction concerning the making of verse or ryme in English_, 1575; Arber's reprint, London, 1868, p. 34.