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About Representing Syntax and Meter

The Opening Sentence

Fig. 1. Beowulf, ll. 1-3

Variation, Paratactic Predications, and Ellipsis

Fig. 2. Beowulf, ll. 4-7a

A Metrical-Syntactical Unit

Fig. 3. Beowulf, ll. 7b-11

Variation and Parataxis

Fig. 4. Beowulf, l. 529, and others like it

Drama in the Handling of Variation (A Request)

Fig. 5. Beowulf, ll. 344-47

Drama in the Handling of Variation (A Response)

Fig. 6. Beowulf, ll. 350b-55

Simple Pragmatics

Fig. 7. Beowulf, ll. 381b-84a

Chiasmus and Suspension

Fig. 8. Beowulf, ll. 636b-38

Variation, Coordination, and Ellipsis (I)

Fig. 9. Beowulf, ll. 2510-18a

Variation, Coordination, and Ellipsis (II)

Fig. 10. Beowulf, ll. 2341b-44

Incremental Repetition, Expansion, and Deletion

Fig. 11. Beowulf, ll. 853-56a

The Closing Sentence

Fig. 12. Beowulf, ll. 3178-82

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