The Rhyming Poem is one of the poems found in the Exeter Book. It is remarkable for being no later than the 10th century, in Old English, and written in rhyming couplets. Rhyme is otherwise virtually unknown among Anglo-Saxon literature, which used alliterative verse instead.
The poem is in the third booklet of the Exeter Book, which may, or may not, be an indication of composition. Many scholarly attempts have been made to decipher the collation of the Exeter Book and to determine if works were placed in the manuscript by date or theme. Unlike the Monstrarum Librum of the Beowulf manuscript, the Exeter Book appears to be a self-consciously archival collection.
The poem concerns the troubles and transience of life. It contrasts the life of a king at court with his life after his fall. The poem may take Book of Job xxix and xxx as its source.
Short lyric poem written in two or four-line stanzas, each with its the same metrical pattern, often addressed to a friend and deal with friendship, love and the practice of poetry.
A ceremonious poem consisting of a strophe (two or more lines repeated as a unit) followed by a an antistrophe with the same metrical pattern and concluding with a summary line (an epode) in a different meter.
A rhymingpoem has the repetition of the same or similar sounds of two or more words, often at the end of the line.
In English, the spelling "rhyme" came to be adopted at the beginning of the Modern English period in order to reflect the Greek original, in the same way that a b was added to the words "dette" and "doute" to reflect the original Latin debitum and dubitum.
One of the earliest rhymingpoems in English is The RhymingPoem.
Rhyme was unknown in Latin poetry until it was introduced under the influence of local vernacular traditions in the early Middle Ages.
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