Crossword-Solution: ALLITERATED 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Only two relics of this age, in their primitive form, remain; they are rhymeless, but alliterated,--a kind of versification common to the German, Anglo- Saxon, and Scandinavian poetry, and which, early in the ninth century, gave place to rhyme.

And so I fashioned my apt phrases, and weighed my synonyms, and echoed this or that vowel very skilfully, I thought, and alliterated my consonants with discretion.

The fourth-- "Middel-erd for mon wes mad," is English, and is interesting as copying not the least intricate of the _trouvère_ measures--an eleven-line stanza of eight sevens or sixes, rhymed _ab, ab, ab, ab, c, b, c_; but moral-religious in tone and much alliterated.

The fifth, also English, is anapæstic tetrameter heavily alliterated, and mono-rhymed for eight verses, with the stanza made up to ten by a couplet on another rhyme.

But when I could not easily alliterate my line or stress the alliterated word, I did not try to do so.’ The author adopts an archaic diction.