The Meter of the "Beowulf"

Baum, Paull F.

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“…The scansional notation is that of Hutcheson (1995:7, n.26), with slight modification: P, p = syllable bearing primary stress (heavy and light, respectively); S, s = syllable bearing secondary stress (heavy and light); x = unstressed syllable (weight irrelevant); resolved syllables are italicized. 2 The list includes Pipping (1903), Baum (1948Baum ( /1949, Keyser (1969), Kerling (1982), Hoover (1985), and Golston and Riad (1997). Rather different is the question whether resolution was still an active principle in the historical period of Old English and Old Norse.…”

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Early Middle English Evidence for Old English Meter: Resolution in Poema morale

Fulk

2002

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In the twelfth-century Middle English Poema morale, perhaps the earliest English composition in a septenary meter, the metrical position at the end of the first hemistich is distinguished from all other positions in admitting a short syllable plus another in a pattern that would disrupt the meter, creating an extra unstressed syllable, if the two were not resolved, as in the word dede in the verse Ic welde more thanne ic dede; | mi wit oh to bi more. Here resolution seems to have been carried over from Old English into a Middle English isometric meter based on Latin models. This constitutes significant evidence for resolution as a genuine property of Old English verse, which in turn lends strong support to Eduard Sievers's metrical analysis of early Germanic alliterative verse. *

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