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What style is this written in?

>> No.609221

english.

>> No.609245

alliterative verse

>> No.609251

This poem isn't particularly interesting to read, I think, even kind of stale.
Fuckin' English teachers.

>> No.609265

>>609251

I agree, It's not that good, but it's well-formed and we all know that this is all teacher think is poetry.

>> No.609270

What's with the slashes in the middle of each line?

>> No.609278

>>609270

Seems like a caesura.

>> No.609282

It looks like the dude who wrote that was trying to imitate the way Old English looks when rendered into modern English. The teacher's mention of the dude's inclusion of Anglo-Saxon themes/values/whatever further supports this. I'm betting it was modeled on Heaney's translation of Beowulf.

>> No.609285

>>609282
By the way, the effect is largely pulled off by including frequent alliteration (same sound for any given line), and using 4 stressed syllables per line, but disregarding (for the most part) the number of unstressed syllables. It sounds nice, there's no denying it.

>> No.609296

it sucks, it doesn't even rhyme

>> No.609301

this is some Beowulf nigga.

how many pages was this?
I bet it wasn't as long as my Beowulf poem, which was about a viking fighting a ninja (I also got 100, nigga, what about that?)

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609317

>>609296

>> No.609368

>giant enemy crab
Am I the only one that notices this?

>> No.609378

>>609368

hahaohwow.jpg

>> No.609385

>>609368

What's wrong with that?

The anonymous hero was fighting a giant crab. This could be a reference to Greek mythology.

>> No.609409

>>609204
GIANT ENEMY CRAB 100%

>> No.609413

fucking "seven-chan"

Now this is classy trolling.

>> No.609427

>>609413
>Mutland
>moot land

>> No.610584

Scooped this from Wikipedia:

The core metrical features of traditional Germanic alliterative verse are as follows:

* A long-line is divided into two half-lines. Half-lines are also known as verses or hemistichs; the first is called the a-verse (or on-verse), the second the b-verse (or off-verse)[2].
* A heavy pause, or cæsura, separates the verses.
* Each verse usually has two strongly stressed syllables, or "lifts".
* The first lift in the b-verse nearly always alliterated with either or both lifts in the a-verse.
* The second lift in the b-verse does not alliterate with the first lifts.

Does the alliteration here happen as in the description?

Poem also fails to have kennings.

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610601

>>609204
>Mutland
>Svencahn
>giant enemy crab

>> No.610613

God damn this was good, 10/10 troll.
Isn't this based on that metal song? What's it called again?
It has that comic of the guy going crazy and killing the other guy, + whales.

>> No.610636

>>609296
you are god

>> No.610645

>>610613
BLOOD AND THUNDER BY MASTADON your WELCOOOOOOOOOME! (0O0)

>> No.610700

>>610601
You forgot

>anonymous hero