Language changes may require modification of metrical rules and may eventually lead to extinction of a meter. Russom's theory is applied to explain the development of English meters from the earliest ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login A major, thoughtful study, applying new and serious interpretative and critical perspectives to a central range of Old English poetry.' ...

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No poem illustrates the counterintuitive nature of the English language better than "The Chaos." Written by Dutch traveler Gerard Nolst Trenité in 1920, the poem is packed with hundreds of ...