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First Sentence:
The author of Beowulf composed in an ancient verse form also inherited by Scandinavian and continental West Germanic poets. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secondary arsis, metrical subordination, primary arsis, optional alliteration, first alliterating word, metrical compounding, extrametrical words, prefixal anacrusis, two trochaic words, resolvable sequences, minor function words, second alliterating syllable, intuitive scansion, trisyllabic anacrusis, single alliteration, long medial syllables, double alliteration, leftward boundary, major function words, adjacent unstressed vowels, hypermetrical patterns, unstressed function words, xxx foot, extrametrical syllables, extrametrical constituents

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Old Norse, Old Saxon, West Germanic, Old High German, Metrical Grammar, Norse Sxx, Old Irish, Codex Regius, Germanische Verskunst, Linguistic Evolution, New Testament, Nominal Compounds, Tonal Music

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This book cites 53 books:

A History of Old English Meter (Middle Ages Series) by R. D. Fulk on 15 pages
The Composition of Old English Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by Hal Momma on 9 pages
Linguistic Evolution: With Special Reference to English (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by M. L. Samuels on 4 pages
A Comparative Germanic Grammar by Edward Prokosch on page 16, page 61, and Back Matter
Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages by Orrin Robinson on page 125, page 170, and Back Matter

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Aspects of Old English Poetic Syntax: WHERE CLAUSES BEGIN (Illinois Medieval Studies) by Mary Blockley on page 72, and Back Matter
J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-earth (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy) by George Clark in Back Matter
A Guide to Old English by Bruce Mitchell on page 150
Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by Donka Minkova in Back Matter
Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature by John D. Niles in Back Matter

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