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Beginner's Guide to Prosody: Anglo Saxon Accentual Meter

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This resource provides a great history and explanation of Anglo-Saxon accentual poetry along with some excellent examples. Before the article, a number of related terms are defined including the following: alliteration, assonance, stressed syllable, slack syllable, syllable, caesura (cesura), distich, strong-stress meter, alliterative-stress meter, accentual-syllabic meter, meter, and scop.

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alliteration, assonance

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accentual poetry, accentual verse, caesura, distich, metre, scop, stressed syllable, anglo-saxon, accentual-syllabic meter, alliterative-stress meter, cesura, meter, metrical, slack syllable, strong-stress meter, syllable

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Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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