Tennyson's "Brunanburh": Alliteration and Meter

Suzanne Hader '97, English 168, Brown University, 1996

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*	All the field with the blood of the fighters	12 b-13 a
	Flow'd, from when the first great	13 b
	Sun-star of morning-tide	13 b-14 a-14 b
*	Lamp of the Lord God	15 b
	Lord everlasting	16 a
	Glode over the earth till the glorious creature	15 a-16 b
	Sank to his setting.	17 a

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