The Poetics of Alliteration: Readings of Medieval English Alliterative Verse

aa/ax lines alliterating phoneme alliterative long line alliterative poetry Alliterative Revival alliterative verse Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon verse Bede Beowulf Cædmon Chaucer Studio classic aa/ax colloquial consonance couthe devils diction dryve English Alliterative Verse example flaming freckled phlox forsythia freckled phlox stock fuchsia fyrene Gaylord Green Knight Grendel half-line Harrowing of Hell hear Hell Herod kind Langland's language late-medieval Lawton lexical stress loke look lord Lucifer manuscript medieval alliterative metrical Middle English modern myght never noght norms Old English Oxford pastiche pattern Pearl Pearl Poet phlox phlox stock options phoneme phrase Piers Plowman play plowgh poet poetics of alliteration praise prose prosody quatrain rhetorical Richard Eberhart rime Satan schall sche scop sing singan Sir Gawain song sounds speech stanza structure swutol syllables take my leve Thagh thematic thou Trigg turn unalliterated Widsith wolde word Wrenn Wynnere and Wastoure wyth