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Old English Feet
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    Old English Feet

  • In this chapter I show that the Beowulf poet carefully avoids lines whose halves are identical in terms of stressed (x) and stressless (.) syllables. The half-line (x.x.), for instance, is happily paired with anything but another (x.x.), despite the fact that (x.x.) is by far the commonest half-line type in the poem. Statistical analysis shows that this avoidance is not by chance and suggests that having identical adjacent half-lines is unmetrical in the poem. The same appears to be ...
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