In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal ornamental device to help indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme.
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In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal ornamental device to help indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme.
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The most commonly studied traditions of alliterative verse are those found in the oldest literature of the Germanic languages, where scholars use the term 'alliterative poetry' rather broadly to indicate a tradition which not only shares alliteration as its primary ornament but certain metrical characteristics.
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Alliterative verse describes metrical patterns and poetic devices used by skaldic poets around the year 1200.
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Alliterative verse has been found in some of the earliest monuments of Germanic literature.
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Nevertheless, there is a broad consensus among scholars that the written Alliterative verse retains many of the features of the spoken language.
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Core metrical features of traditional Germanic alliterative verse are as follows; they can be seen in the Gallehus inscription above:.
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Alliterative verse poets drew on a specialized vocabulary of poetic synonyms rarely used in prose texts and used standard images and metaphors called kennings.
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Some patterns of classical Old English Alliterative verse begin to break down at the end of the Old English period.
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Alliterative verse wrote a variety of pieces of alliterative verse in Old English, including parts of The Seafarer.
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Alliterative verse made translations including about 600 lines of Beowulf in verse.
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Various names of the Old Norse Alliterative verse forms are given in the Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson.
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The Hattatal, or "list of Alliterative verse forms", contains the names and characteristics of each of the fixed forms of Norse poetry.
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Requirements of this Alliterative verse form were so demanding that occasionally the text of the poems had to run parallel, with one thread of syntax running through the on-side of the half-lines, and another running through the off-side.
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Alliterative verse poetry is still practiced in Iceland in an unbroken tradition since the settlement, most commonly in the form of rimur.
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