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Old English metre is the conventional name given to the poetic metre in which English language poetry was composed in the Anglo-Saxon period. The best-known example of poetry composed in this verse form is Beowulf , but the vast majority of Old English poetry belongs to the same tradition.
Eduard Sievers developed a theory of the meter of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse, which he published in his 1893 Altgermanische Metrik. [1] Widely used by scholars, it was in particular extended by Alan Joseph Bliss. [2] Sievers' system is a primarily method of categorization rather than a full theory of meter.
4, is assumed to either be equivalent to a measure of 3 4 followed by a measure of 2 4, or the opposite: 2 4 then 3 4. Higher metres which are divisible by 2 or 3 are considered equivalent to groupings of duple or triple metre measures; thus, 6 4, for example, is rarely used because it is considered equivalent to two measures of 3 4.
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Poetic Meter and Poetic Form is a book by Paul Fussell, published by McGraw Hill in 1965, and later as a revised edition in 1979 (ISBN 0-07-553606-4). Fussell distinguishes four types of meter [1] : Syllabic
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In music, the terms additive and divisive are used to distinguish two types of both rhythm and meter: . A divisive (or, alternately, multiplicative) rhythm is a rhythm in which a larger period of time is divided into smaller rhythmic units or, conversely, some integer unit is regularly multiplied into larger, equal units.
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