2) §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
...instance of the occurrence in English poetry of the consistent use of end-rime and alliteration in one and the same poem. The theme sorrow s crown of sorrows is remembering...

3) §31. "The Ploughman s Tale". I. Piers the Plowman and its Sequence. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...until recently, it has been supposed to be by the author of the Crede. The poem, though containing much alliteration, is not in alliterative verse, but in rimed stanzas,...

4) 597. Poetry. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
...sea- song; lullaby, aubade [F.]; music [See Music]; nursery rhymes. [BAD POETRY] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse; macaronics, macaronic verse; not poetry, but prose run...

5) §5. Huchoun of the Awle Ryale. V. The Earliest Scottish Literature. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...dialectal forms at their will, so long as they did not affect the alliteration or the number of syllables. In the rimed poems here attributed to Huchoun it is certain...

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
...sung verse contained in the Chronicle is that for 959, on the accession of King Edgar. It contains fortynine half lines, making twenty-four and a half full lines,...

7) §7. A large proportion of his work translation. II. The Sacred Poets. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...The poem was congenial to the translator, in whose hands it grew even more ornate than the original. A copious use of epithets, which are generally felicitous, a...

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
...found constantly gaining in favour and deteriorating in quality here runs wild. The book was edited, or, rather, joyned together and builded up, by one T. P. (Thomas...

9) §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
...Land of Cockayne. He discusses versification, and notes in Old English verse a greater regard for quantity than in modern English (giving examples from Cowley of...

10) Skelton, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Wolsey-The Bowge of Court (1499), Speak, Parrot (1521), Colin Clout (1522), and Why Come Ye Not to Court? (c.1522)-and the mock dirge "Philip Sparrow." Many of his...