单词 | stave rhyme |
释义 | > as lemmasstave rhyme stave rhyme n. (originally) Germanic alliterative verse; the metre characteristic of this; (later) alliteration as a poetic or rhetorical device; (also) an example of this; an alliterating word or element. Cf. sense 13. [After German Stabreim alliteration (1819 or earlier) < Stab staff n.1 + Reim rhyme n., itself after Old Icelandic stafr in sense ‘alliterating sound’ (see main etymology section). Compare Dutch stafrijm (1836 or earlier), Swedish stavrim (1878), Danish stavrim (1850), Icelandic stafrím (1896 or earlier), all after German.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > alliteration > [noun] alliteration1624 stave-rhyme1888 1858 F. Metcalfe Hist. German Lit. 15 This form of verse, in which rhyme, properly so called, was unknown, was called alliterative or stave rhyme, from the three staves on which the line rested. 1859 L. G. Nilsson Specimens of King Alfred's Prov. 1 The metre..is the Old Northern stave-rhyme, common to most English poetry down to the close of the middle-age. 1888 Academy 14 Jan. 27/1 The law of the alliterative verse does not require us to adopt the reading of the Dublin MS., as three stave-rimes are a sufficient number for a line. 1976 PMLA 91 820/1 Luther imprints his slogans on our mind not with end rhyme..so often as with stave rhyme, a Germanic device. 2000 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 59 730 The line-initial and internal alliteration or stave rhyme of the verses embedded in the prose of the original. < as lemmas |
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