Alliterative verse was an important ingredient of poetry in Old English and other old Germanic languages like Old High German, Old Norse, and Old Saxon.

Alliterative verse can be found in many other languages as well, although rarely with the systematic rigor of Germanic forms.

Alliterative verse is occasionally written by other modern authors.

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Alliterative verse, where many of the stressed words in each line start with the same sound, was often used in the local poetry of that time.

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* Alliterative verse

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In Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Alliterative Morte Arthure, he is killed in the war against the Roman emperor Lucius, while the Vulgate Cycle has him die in France, also in battle against the Romans.

The Gest of Arthure, also called Gest Historyalle and described by Wyntoun, has been more tentatively identified as the well-known Alliterative Morte Arthure ( found in the Thornton manuscript of Lincoln Cathedral ).

Suggested emandations may be found in " Patience: An Alliterative Version of " Jonah " by the Poet of " Pearl.

In the 2000s Minnesota produced a number of Alliterative acts such as Motion City Soundtrack, Owl City, Sing It Loud and some Metal and hardcore acts such as For All Those Sleeping, After the Burial, Write This Down and Four Letter Lie.

Lucius appears in later, particularly English literature such as Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure, and a Roman Emperor defeated by King Arthur appears in French Arthurian literature as well, notably in the Vulgate Cycle.

In the Alliterative Morte Arthure, a Middle English poem, there is mention of Clarent, a sword of peace meant for knighting and ceremonies as opposed to battle, which is stolen and then used to kill Arthur by Mordred.

Guinevere is childless in most stories, two exceptions being the Perlesvaus and the Alliterative Morte Arthure.

" Laȝamon and the Earliest Middle English Alliterative Verse.

The first published edition was in Early English Alliterative Poems in the West Midland Dialect of the fourteenth century, printed by the Early English Text Society.

“ Figural Typology in the Middle English “ Patience .” In “ The Alliterative Tradition in the Fourteenth Century ,” edited by Bernard S. Levy and Paul E. Szarmach.

In Geoffrey and certain other sources such as the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Mordred seduces and marries Guinevere, after which he seizes the throne.

Alliterative poets drew on a specialized vocabulary of poetic synonyms rarely used in prose texts and used standard images and metaphors called kennings.

In several English versions of Arthur's death, including Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur, the Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur, Bedivere and Arthur are among the few survivors of the Battle of Camlann.

" Malory did not invent the stories in this collection ; he translated and compiled them ... Malory in fact translated Arthurian stories that already existed in thirteenth-century French prose ( the so-called Old French Vulgate romances ) and compiled them together with at least one tale from Middle English sources ( the Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur ) to create this text.

This book, detailing Arthur's march on Rome, is heavily based on the Middle English Alliterative Morte Arthure, which in turn is heavily based on Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.

" Early English Alliterative Poems ", EETS o. S.

Alliterative minced oaths such as darn for damn allow a speaker to begin to say the prohibited word and then change to a more acceptable expression.

Later accounts of the battle, much embroidered, appear in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae and the Alliterative Morte Arthure.

He does not figure strongly in the romance traditions, though he does appear as Arthur's successor in the 14th-century English alliterative poem known as the Alliterative Morte Arthure, as well as Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur, in sections adapted from the Alliterative Morte.

An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.

Even though the bondage of his verse is not so great as the writing poet can manage, it is still great enough for him often to be seriously impeded unless he has aids to facilitate rapid composition.

The latter manuscript was severely damaged in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the authorship of the verse has been much disputed ; but likely it also is by Alfred.

In accentual-syllabic verse, it is a line of iambic hexameter-a line of six feet or measures (" iambs "), each of which has two syllables with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

In verse eighteen, it says that once judgment has been carried out, “ There will be no survivors from the house of Esau ” ( NIV ).

Since, in the same verse, the temple has been rebuilt, the book must also be later than 515 BCE.

Usually, only the second and fourth line of a quatrain are rhymed ( in the scheme a, b, c, b ), which has been taken to suggest that, originally, ballads consisted of couplets ( two lines ) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables.

" ( Book of Moroni 4: 3, Doctrine and Covenants 20: 77 --* in the Doctrine and Covenants, the verse reads " which he has given them ").

This is summed up in the second to last verse: " The end of the matter ; all has been heard.

In verse, after Loki has flyted with the goddess Frigg, Freyja interjects, telling Loki that he is insane for dredging up his terrible deeds, and that Frigg knows the fate of everyone, though she does not tell it.

This is similar to the parallel structure of Hebrew poetry, in which the second verse of a couplet often carries the same meaning as the first, though in the epistle the frequent recapitulations of already expressed ideas serve also to add to what has previously been said.

Beyond its first verse, which is consistent, it has many historic and extant versions: Since its first publication, different verses have been added and taken away and, even today, different publications include various selections of verses in various orders.

In The Spanish Gypsy, Eliot made a foray into verse, creating a work whose initial popularity has not endured.

Later in the chapter, after the female jötunn Þökk refuses to weep for the dead Baldr, she responds in verse, ending with " let Hel hold what she has.

Hesiod has also been considered the father of gnomic verse.

The metre is often denoted by a row of figures besides the name of the tune, such as " 87. 87. 87 ", which would inform the reader that each verse has six lines, and that the first line has eight syllables, the second has seven, the third line eight, etc.

The verse also has a stress preceding the caesura, on either the fourth or sixth syllable.

According to the documentary hypothesis, use of names of God indicates authorship, and form critics variously assign passages like Genesis chapter 26, verses 6-11 to the Yahwist source, and Genesis chapter 20 verses 1-7, chapter 21, verse 1 to chapter 22, verse 14 and chapter 22, verse 19 to the Elohist source ; this source-critical approach has admitted problems, in that the name " Yahweh " appears in Elohist material.

: A single verse has several meanings, but no two verses hold the same meaning.

Just as this hammer produces many sparks ( when it strikes the rock ), so a single verse has several meanings.

She finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land she has walked into, later revealed as a dreamscape.