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- Title
THE THREE VARIETIES OF OLD ENGLISH HYPERMETRIC YERSIFICATION.
- Authors
Bredehoft, Thomas A.
- Abstract
Many metrical accounts of Old English versification have dealt only briefly or superficially with hypermetric verses, if they have dealt with them at all. Most frequently, hypermetric verses are either described as normal verses with something extra added or combinations of two normal verses. Bliss's influential account sees hypermetric verses as otherwise normal verses in which "the final syllables are replaced by sequences equivalent to ordinary verses." In short, virtually all Old English hypermetric lines fall into one of the three types identified in this article, and the different types are used with enough consistency to suggest relatively clearly that poems can usefully be categorized according to which type of hypermetric versification they employ.
- Subjects
OLD English Christian literature; VERSIFICATION; POETRY (Literary form); AUTHORSHIP
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2003, Vol 50, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/50.2.153