md English yęrsa
> -makes use of emphasis, stress, intonation, rhylhm
> -the number of syllables is not important ^ -4 stressed syllables in a linę
> -a caęsurg (ą pausel
Anglo- Saxon poetic devices are formulaic and conventional: the poet had a ready- madę set of devices to use
■ -the sound from the first syllable of the second half-lfne Is the most important- it establishes the alliteratjon of the whole liną
* -the fourth stressed syllable is not alliterated y kannina
* 3 matanhnriral wąy nf r|o;=iTihiPn .
■ -repstition of-tbe-same-sounds (the same consonant or other vowel) af jinnina of the stressed syllable