Alliteration in Modern and Middle English: “Piers Plowman”
William Langland’s 8000-line fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman uses an alliterative rhyme scheme inherited from Old English in which, instead of a rhyme at the end of a line, at least three out of the four stressed syllables in each line begin with the same sound, and this is combined with a ca...
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Yerevan State University
2014-10-01
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| Series: | Armenian Folia Anglistika |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.ysu.am/index.php/arm-fol-angl/article/view/4505 |