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... rhyme , and none of them ran to ten thousand lines . Orm might have done better to accept the French rhyming fash- ion , which was now beginning to come into Middle English religious and didactic verse . The four - hundred line Poema ...
... rhyme , and none of them ran to ten thousand lines . Orm might have done better to accept the French rhyming fash- ion , which was now beginning to come into Middle English religious and didactic verse . The four - hundred line Poema ...
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... rhyme would have been very restricted . Some of the early Middle English poems we have quoted above will show how the native Anglo - Saxon tradition gave way to the new rhyming fashion ; but the alliterative tradition was not altogether ...
... rhyme would have been very restricted . Some of the early Middle English poems we have quoted above will show how the native Anglo - Saxon tradition gave way to the new rhyming fashion ; but the alliterative tradition was not altogether ...
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... Rhyme , which defends rhyme on the grounds of its uni- versality and antiquity . This ends the Renaissance controversy about rhyme and quantitative meters in England . Campion's arguments are ingenious and strongly urged , and they seem ...
... Rhyme , which defends rhyme on the grounds of its uni- versality and antiquity . This ends the Renaissance controversy about rhyme and quantitative meters in England . Campion's arguments are ingenious and strongly urged , and they seem ...
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CHAPTER PAGE 1 ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE | 3 |
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