Anglo Saxon Alliterative Verse: How Is a Poem Like a Garment - Ursula Mortimer
Channel: Cerian Cantwr
Date: 2020-11-11

Anglo Saxon Alliterative Verse: How Is a Poem Like a Garment - Ursula Mortimer
Recorded at Bardic Madness 2020 in the ethereal realm.

Anglo Saxon Alliterative Verse:
The rules for constructing one are as follows:

    Each line is made up of two half lines or distiches.
    When spoken aloud, there will be a natural pause between them. This is the caesura.
    Each half line consists of two strongly stressed syllables and an indefinite number of weaker ones.
    Stressed syllables rhyme with each other by alliteration.
    The first stress of the second half line will rhyme with either of the stresses in the first half line.
    The second stress of the second half line does not usually rhyme with either of the stresses in the first half line.