Song Measure
Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Other Requirement,
Stanzaic | |
Description: | | This is similar to Old Story Measure in lines one and
three. Lines two and four have only three stressed syllables with no cæsura and up to four unstressed syllables. Two of the stresses alliterate. It
doesn't matter which two. | |
Origin: | | Norse | |
Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 4 | |
See Also: | | Accentual Verse, Anglo-Saxon Accentual Verse, Edda Measures, Old Story
Measure, Speech Measure, Tetrastich | |
Status: | | Incomplete | |
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