2) versification. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic poetry have strong accents or stresses, usually four to a line; a caesura or definite break in the middle of the line; and a pattern of...

3) §1. Old English Verse. XVIII. The Prosody of Old and Middle English. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...few reduce themselves, in point of prosody, to an elastic but tolerably isonomous form, closely resembling that which is found in the poetry of other early Teutonic...

4) §12. "The Riming Poem, Proverbs, The Runic Poem, Salomon and Saturn". IV. Old English Christian Poetry. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...The Riming Poem is a solitary instance of the occurrence in English poetry of the consistent use of end-rime and alliteration in one and the same poem. The theme...

5) rhyme. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...After 1300 rhyme came to be the outstanding metrical mark of poetry until the introduction of blank verse in the 16th cent. Alliteration and assonance were both called...

6) §11. The Ballads and Poems in "The Chronicle". VII. From Alfred to the Conquest. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...strong as to ravage the land while he ruled over it. 81 Another interesting ballad poem, on the troubles caused by Aelfhere and other rebels in the reign of Edgar...

7) §12. Thomas Churchyard. VIII. The New English Poetry. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...(which he seems to drive home by his practice of marking his caesuras with a blank space in the printed line) make his valiant fourteeners and common-time stanzas...

8) §19. "A Gorgious Gallery of Gallant Inventions". VIII. The New English Poetry. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...the faults that developed in the school after the death of Surrey became more pronounced. Alliteration is almost incessant, and the metre which we have found constantly...

9) §3. The staple of English poetry. XIII. Prosody from Chaucer to Spenser. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of mould and mass continue to develop the main process often referred to. It is, of course, possible, by keeping the eye wholly to one side, to lump all or most of...

10) §9. The Movement in favour of Ballads and Border Songs. X. The Literary Influence of the Middle Ages. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...shortened); while, in discussing alliteration, he quotes from modern poets, Donne, Waller, Dryden. It might be said that the promise of the History of English Poetry...