Meaning ALLITERATIVE VERSE
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ALLITERATIVE VERSEA traditional form of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse poetry in which each line has at least four stressed syllables, and those stresses fall on syllables in which three or four words alliterate (repeat the [..]
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ALLITERATIVE VERSEverse in which metrical stress in each line falls on words or phrases which usually begin with the same consonant. (E.g., these two lines from "The Battle of Maldon":
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