Old english meter is based on half-line units consisting of a phrase having two stresses. true false

The answer is true.

Old English meter was used in the poetry from the Anglo-Saxon poetic. It uses alliteration that connects two half-lines. It means that a word or syllable in the second half-line will alliterate with one or more words or syllables in the first half-line. The alliterated words or syllables have more stress.

Not all syllables can be alliterated. Nouns and verbs are frequently alliterated, while pronouns are rarely alliterated.

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"the sandy walls seemed to collapse in on themselves"

and

"the bloodshot waters seemed to have no bottom"