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Article: English Epic Poems: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight: Part 1
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Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight: Part 1
The final and most famous poem of Cotton Nero A.x is Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight, a work that is commonly said to represent the "culmination of
the romance tradition." The poem consists of 2,530 lines, longer than those of
Pearl, arranged in one-hundred-and-one stanzas, varying in length from twelve
to thirty-eight lines. The stanza unit in this poem has a unique form
consisting of two parts: first, a varying number of four and five stress
unrhymed, alliterative lines. There is much more alliteration here than in the
other works of the Alliterative Revival. Instead of the typical three accented
alliterative ...