Reconstructing the rhythm of Beowulf:
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RECONSTRUCTING
THE RHYTHM OF
Beowulf
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESS
COLUMBIA AND LONDON
Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Prologue 1
1 Two Hypotheses 5
Introduction 5
Previous Attempts to Scan Beowulf 7
The Making of the Consensus on Verses 10
The First Major Hypothesis: Lineation Implies a Method 18
The Second Major Hypothesis: Lineation Is the Key to Prosodic
Constituents 21
Reconstructing the Rhythm of Beowulf 27
2 From Sign to Syllable: The Poefs Syllables as the Data
of the Prosodist 29
3 Recoverable Features and Functions of Syllables 39
Introduction 39
Stress 40
A Simple Binary Sorting 40
An Inventory of Stressed Syllables 41
Stressed and Unstressed Pronouns 41
Compounds 42
Formatives 43
Problem Syllables 43
First Coda: Attempts to Lineate (Stress) 44
Lineation Based on Four Stressed Syllables per Line 44
Lineation Based on a Count of Long Stressed Syllables 46
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A New Theory of Alliteration 49
Three Hypotheses Concerning Alliteration 49
Significant/Incidental Alliteration 49
Dominant/Subdominant Alliteration 50
Range 51
Second Coda: Attempts to Lineate (Alliteration) 52
Clauses and Clause Boundaries in Beowulf 54
Introduction 54
The Core Relationship 55
The Isolation of Clauses 63
Fully Expressed Clauses 64
Infinitive Phrases 67
Adjectives in Beowulf 68
Clauses Showing Deletion 71
Introduction 71
Subject Deletion 72
Verb Deletion 74
Subject and Verb Deletion 75
Test-Frames for Deletion 78
How Many Kinds of Deletion Are Necessary? 80
Difficult or Ambiguous Clause Boundaries 80
Discontinuous Qauses 80
Sharing Clauses 81
Blends 81
Intruders and Semantic Isolation 82
Third Coda: Attempts to Lineate (Clause Boundaries) 84
Proclitics and Verse Lines 86
Prepositions 88
Demonstrative Pronouns 88
Possessive Pronouns 89
Summary: Features and Functions of Syllables and Verse
Lineation 89
Systematic Lineation and Half-Lining: Testing the
First Major Hypothesis 90
The Emergence of the Verse Line 90
The Emergence of the Halfline 92
Major and Minor Hypotheses Regarding Lineation 96
Verse Lines and Halftones Determined by Programmed
Lineation 97
The Second Major Hypothesis n o
Kemble s Legacy: A Matched Corpus of Verse Lines in
Beowulf 116
Subcorpus I: Matched Two-Segment Lines 117
Subcorpus II: Matched Three-Segment Lines 117
Subcorpus III: Matched Four-Segment Lines 123
The Challenge: Halfline Constituents of Synthetic
Halflines as the Key to Beowulfian Prosody 125
Introduction 125
Nonalliterating HCs as Single HCs 126
Simple Alliterating HCs as Single HCs 128
Simple Alliterating HCs as Templates 130
The Resolution of Short Stressed Syllables 131
Simple Templates 135
Simple Constituents of Intact Halflines 137
Augmented Segments 142
Are Augmented Segments Single HCs? 146
Inner Stressed (Nonalliterating) Syllables as Markers of
HCs 148
Stress Reconsidered 151
Conclusion 152
Comparing Prosodic Constituents 153
Introduction 153
Rules of Distribution 156
Empty Parts 159
Building the Grid 163
Stacking: In General 183
Detailed Commentary on Some Results of Stacking 184
The Rule of Three 184
Verse Lines and Halflines as Prosodic Units 186
Replotting Halflines: Two HCs or Three? 187
Conclusion 189
Kemble s Additional Principles of Lineation:
Replotting Mismatches 190
Kemble s Two-HC Norm 190
Plotting Mismatches onto the Grid 192
9 The Rhythm of Beowulf 201
Summary of the Evidence for Interpreting the Data as Indicating
a Rhythm 203
Definitions of Prosodic Units 206
Stress and Rhythm 206
Appendix A Procedures for Systematically Eliciting Verse lines
and Halflines from Manuscript lines 209
Appendix B How to Scan the Verses of an Edited Text 212
Appendix C Encoding the Syllables of the Manuscript for
Computer 216
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