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Meyer, Kuno, A primer of Irish metrics. With a glossary, and an appendix containing an alphabetical list of the poets of Ireland, Dublin: School of Irish Learning, 1909.

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A primer of Irish metrics. With a glossary, and an appendix containing an alphabetical list of the poets of Ireland
Place
Dublin
Publisher
School of Irish Learning
Year
1909
Online resources
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– Angus Matheson’s annotated copy resource: The Internet Archive (archive.org)
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Contents:
  • A. Alliterative poetry
    • Alliteration
  • B. Syllabic poetry
    • Technical terms
    • Rhyme
    • Consonance
    • Debide-rhyme
    • Internal rhyme
    • Elision
    • Aphæresis
    • How to conclude a poem
    • Syntatic licences
    • The metres
    • Stanzas of different structure
  • Appendix: the poets of Ireland
  • Glossary of the rarer words
Related publications
General
Bergin, Osborn, “Metrica I: notes on Meyer's Primer of Irish metrics”, Ériu 8 (1916): 161–167.
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Dennis Groenewegen
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