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<p>216.126.141.34: /* Related Links */</p> <hr /> <div>The entire body of '''Anglo-Saxon poetry''' consists of little more than 30 000 lines. It is by nature alliterative rather than rhyming. It catches the [[Anglo-Saxon]] people either side of their conversion to [[Christianity]], and so includes both devout Christian works and a darker [[Pagan]] worldview.<br /> <br /> ==[[poetic meter|Meter]]==<br /> <br /> Every line of Anglo-Saxon poetry was split into two half-lines. Most of these contained at least four syllables, two of which were stressed. There was always [[alliteration]] between the one of the stressed syllables of the first half-line and the first stressed syllable of the second half line. The second stressed syllable of the second half line sometimes alliterated with the other stressed syllable of the first half-line.<br /> <br /> Some lines contained four stressed syllables per half line. These are called ''hypermetric'' lines, and were used either for dramatic effect, or simply to add variety.<br /> <br /> i am going to get it like blow blow kapow<br /> <br /> ==Performance==<br /> <br /> Anglo-Saxon poetry appears to have been performed accompanied by a [[harp]]. A passage from [[Beowulf]] seems to indicate that it was perfectly valid to make up sections of an established poem on the spot.<br /> <br /> i am a pimp i gets money out of your pussy<br /> <br /> hey man</div>

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<p>216.126.141.34: /* Manuscript Sources */</p> <hr /> <div>The entire body of '''Anglo-Saxon poetry''' consists of little more than 30 000 lines. It is by nature alliterative rather than rhyming. It catches the [[Anglo-Saxon]] people either side of their conversion to [[Christianity]], and so includes both devout Christian works and a darker [[Pagan]] worldview.<br /> <br /> ==[[poetic meter|Meter]]==<br /> <br /> Every line of Anglo-Saxon poetry was split into two half-lines. Most of these contained at least four syllables, two of which were stressed. There was always [[alliteration]] between the one of the stressed syllables of the first half-line and the first stressed syllable of the second half line. The second stressed syllable of the second half line sometimes alliterated with the other stressed syllable of the first half-line.<br /> <br /> Some lines contained four stressed syllables per half line. These are called ''hypermetric'' lines, and were used either for dramatic effect, or simply to add variety.<br /> <br /> i am going to get it like blow blow kapow<br /> <br /> ==Performance==<br /> <br /> Anglo-Saxon poetry appears to have been performed accompanied by a [[harp]]. A passage from [[Beowulf]] seems to indicate that it was perfectly valid to make up sections of an established poem on the spot.<br /> <br /> i am a pimp i gets money out of your pussy<br /> <br /> ==Related Links==<br /> <br /> * [ftp://ftp.std.com/WWW/obi/Anglo-Saxon/aspr/contents.html The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Poetry]]</div>

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