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On this date John Skelton<\/a> died (1460-1529).<\/p>\n

Frye in “<\/em>Recontre: The General Editor’s Introduction”:<\/em><\/p>\n

As a result of the change of rhythm, the native four-beat line came into the foreground again.\u00a0 At the court of Henry VIII, John Skelton developed the “skeltonic” rhythm which has been named after him, a rhythm closer to nursery rhyme, ballad, and popular poetry of all kinds than perhaps any other equally important poet has produced.\u00a0 One result of this, of a type not uncommon among experimental poets, was that it was not until well on in the twentieth century that he was regarded as an important poet at all.\u00a0 The English four-beat line was, we said, split in two by a mid-line caesura; hence Old English poetry could be printed as a series to two-beat lines by a slight change in typography.\u00a0 The skeltonic is rhythmically the Old English half-line revived, although a clanging rhythm has been added:<\/p>\n

For though my rhyme be ragged,<\/p>\n

Tattered and jagged,<\/p>\n

Rudely rain-beaten,<\/p>\n

Rusty and moth-eaten,<\/p>\n

If ye take well therewith,<\/p>\n

It hath in it some pith.\u00a0 [Colin Clout<\/em> II. 53-8]<\/p>\n

Such a rhythm is logical, if extreme, of accentual tendencies, and is an excellent vehicle for the violent satire and grotesque realism that usually accompanied it in Skelton.\u00a0 (CW<\/em> 10, 14)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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