Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Tom 64

A. J. Bliss abstract pattern accent acoustic alliteration anacrusis argue argument arsis bæt Beowulf Bessinger Bliss reads C. L. Wrenn chansons de geste clashing stresses compound constraints Eduard Sievers eorl fact Five Types five-position Glieder Gregorian chant half-line heavier inflected intermediate metrical stress intermediate stress Intonation J. R. R. Tolkien Kaluza Keyser levels of metrical Lieberman light verse linguistic prominence long syllable main stresses melodic formula Metre of Beowulf metrical ictus metrical pattern metrical positions Modern English occur ofer Old English meter Old English poetry Old English prosody Old English verse Oxford Philip Lieberman phrases pitch Pope's problem Revised Bliss 3E1 Rhythm of Beowulf rhythmical scanned scansion secondary linguistic stress secondary stress stressed syllable structure subtypes Sutton Hoo swā syllables bearing syntactic theory types of verse University Press unstressed W. K. Wimsatt wæs word XX XX þā þæt