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Old English Feet
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---18July 20242023/2024A+
- 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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