LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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They didn’t know about it yet
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It was difficult to remember
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The stress is on the first syllable
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The word order was free
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Detailed explanation-1: -The primary stress generally falls on the first syllable of a word, unless it starts with a prefix like ‘ge’, as prefixes are always unstressed. A line of poetry in Old English consists of two half-lines seperated by a natural pause known as a caesura, and each half-line has two stressed syllables.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most common method of scanning a poem is to place marks above the syllables to indicate whether they are stressed or unstressed. The mark for a stressed syllable is a slash (“/”) and the mark for an unstressed syllable is a dash (“-”).
Detailed explanation-3: -Alliterative verse Virtually all Old English poetry is written in a single metre, a four-stress line with a syntactical break, or caesura, between the second and third stresses, and with alliteration linking the two halves of the line; this pattern is occasionally varied by six-stress lines.
Detailed explanation-4: -The rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse. The predominant meter in English poetry is accentual-syllabic.