Both are in alliterative verse; the first composed about the end, and the second about the middle, of the fourteenth century.
The famous Visions of Langland, in the fourteenth century, are in alliterative verse; under Elizabeth alliteration became one of the peculiarities of the florid prose called Euphuism.
But the older poems in alliterative verse have a character not possessed by the ballads which followed them, and which often repeated the same stories in the later Middle Ages.
The largest number of heroic poems in alliterative verse is found in the old Northern language, and in manuscripts written in Iceland.
The style of alliterative verse is not monotonous.
This, like the Creed, is free from allegory; and it differs from the others also in being written in rhyme, and not in alliterative verse.
It also is composed in alliterative verse, and its meaning is rendered obscure by a confused allegorical style.
Taken as a whole his dissertation on the history of alliterative verse is remarkably correct, and his final remarks are noteworthy: Thus we have traced the alliterative measure so low as the sixteenth century.
Here the group of synonyms arises from weakening of the ordinary prose meanings; and this tendency to use words in colourless or forced senses is a general defect of alliterative verse.
Adaptability made easier the diffusion of alliterative verse: but its revival was not due to a deliberate choice on practical grounds.
Jack Upland must have been written in alliterative verse; for no other reason than because Friar Daw's reply is so written.
The Crede is written in alliterative verse; and it will be observed that alliteration is employed in the Tale very freely.
It contains some 3182 lines, and is written in alliterative verse (that is to say, that all the lines are written in pairs and that each perfect pair contains two similar sounds in the first line and one in the second).
Many of the poems incorporated in this epic date back some three thousand years, and the epic itself is composed in alliterative verse, although it also contains rhythm of line and sound, as the following introductory lines prove.
Next come the epic poems of Cynewulf, Crist, Juliana, Elene, and Andreas, also written in alliterative verse.
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