The evolution of verse structure in Old and Middle English poetry from the earliest alliterative poems to Iambic pentameter - Russom, Geoffrey (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
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Machine generated contents note: 1. General principles of poetic form; 2. Indo-European and Germanic meters; 3. Old English meter in the era of Beowulf; 4. From late Old English meter to Middle English meter; 5. Middle English type A1 and the hypermetrical b-verse; 6. Type A1 in the a-verse; 7. Types B and C; 8. Survival and extinction in types A2, Da, and E; 9. Type Db and the hypermetrical a-verse; 10. The birth of English iambic meter; 11. General summary