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Two distinct metrical traditions are represented in this book: rhymed verse and alliterative verse. The verse of French and Anglo‐Norman poets was the chief model for the former; the history of alliterative verse is less clear, but it is a verse‐form native to Germanic peoples and used by the Anglo‐Saxons. English rhymed verse is based on the regular alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables; alliterative verse is based on stress and is syllabically variable.