Alliteration is a ______ of the initial ______ of ________ syllables across the verse line

(a)  

Which sound alliterates in the following line:

A fair field full of folk · found I in between

(a)  

Strong position in alliterative verse is also known as?

(a)  

What was the dominant type of metrical foot in Middle English verse?

(a)  

What is it called when the medial vowel of an unstressed syllable is skipped?

e.g. pílgrim(e)s, mártir(e)s, pálmer(e)s

(a)  

Identify meter and rhyme in the following passage:

But natheles,° whyl I have tyme and space,

Er that I ferther in this tale pace,

°Me thinketh it acordaunt to resoun⁵

To telle yow al the condicioun⁶

Of ech of hem, so as it semed me,

°And whiche° they weren, and of what degree,

°And eek in what array° that they were inne;

And at a knight than wol° I first biginne.

(a)