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16th century Agincourt Aldhelm alliteration alliterative anacrusis Anglo-Saxon Battle of Maldon beginning blank verse Byrhtnoth Cędmon called Chaucer color consonant-sounds dactyl double-ending line duration eighth-notes end-stopped end-stopped line English poetry English verse exact co-ordinations exactly example Fletcher's form of 3-rhythm four given habit iambus illustration instrument intensity interval line-group logical accent marked means melody method metre modern music and verse normal time-value observed Ormulum phenomena phrase piano Piers Plowman pitch play poem poet precise present primary rhythm pronunciation accent prose Puttenham reader recurrence reference relations rest rhyme rhythmic accent rhythmic groups run-on lines secondary rhythm Shakspere Shakspere's sing song sonnet speaking-voice speech-tune stanza string student syllable syzygy term thęt tion tone tone-color tunes of speech typic bar typic scheme unaccented utterance variations varying verse-sounds vibrations voice vowel vowel-color węs words Λ Λ م م م