Strong-Stress Metre in Fourteen-Line Stanza Forms

Kennedy, Ruth Wedgwood

doi:10.1353/pgn.2000.0071

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“…25 A small but notable group used a related fourteen-line arrangement in which the cauda reached the six-line extent of the Petrarchan sonnet's sestet. 26 Several types of twelve-line stanza with a concluding shift in rhyme pattern in the final four lines also saw use. 27 Scholarship long ago drew an analogy between the concluding quatrain of the twelve-line stanza in Pearl, beginning with a shift in rhyme which often coordinates with a syntactic break, and the Petrarchan sonnet's sestet.…”

Section: An Accidental Formmentioning

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Form, Time, and the “First English Sonnet”

Sawyer

2021

The Chaucer Review

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The earliest known English poem rhyming ababcdcdefefgg appears within John Metham's 1448/9 romance Amoryus and Cleopes. However, scholarship cannot easily claim Metham's lyric as "the first English sonnet": contrary to past suggestions, available historical and manuscript evidence indicates that he did not intentionally create it as a sonnet, but rather composed in the form accidentally. This inset lyric's rhyme scheme therefore represents, possibly uniquely in English, sonnet form without the sonnet tradition. Despite this isolation, however, attentive reading shows that the lyric achieves certain effects very like those produced by later English sonnets. The common features underpinning these effects even in a text not knowingly written as a sonnet might help criticism isolate factors which constitute form's essence or quiddity.

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Section: An Accidental Formmentioning

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Form, Time, and the “First English Sonnet”

Sawyer

2021

The Chaucer Review

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Alliterative Poetry: Metre and Versification

Putter

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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From the perspective of verse form, the alliterative poetry of the later Middle Ages constitutes a very diverse corpus. The unrhymed poems of the alliterative revival show both continuities and discontinuities with Old English verse, with regard to alliterative patterning as well as rhythmical constraints. The introduction of rhyme created further formal variety, and encouraged alliterative poets to develop anisometric strophes, including bob‐and‐wheel stanzas.

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Strong-Stress Metre in Fourteen-Line Stanza Forms

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

Form, Time, and the “First English Sonnet”

Form, Time, and the “First English Sonnet”

Alliterative Poetry: Metre and Versification

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