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1874, Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon, page 73:Ley, in his work on the Metrical Forms of Hebrew Poetry, 1866, has taken too little notice of these frequently occurring alliteration staves; Lagarde communicated to me (8th Sept. 1846) his view of the stave-rhyme in the Book of […]
1974, John Collins Pope, Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope, page 193:1894 SWEET 1xxxv In our texts ... the letters or staves are in italics. [... The] stave that binds the two halves of the line together the on-verse must be classified as D in spite of the f-stave . . stave-rhyme (OED s.v. Stave sb.)
1975, Studies in Medieval Culture, page 11:... consisting only of the two staves, folches . . . fehta. […] Line 63 contains the two-stave rhyme, aerist ... asckim; the suggested reduplicative rhyme [...] is technically doubtful according to the standards we have […]
2005, Studia musicologica Norvegica:This may seem sparse and incomplete, but is reminiscent of the Old Norse stave rhyme technique in which one avoided two alliterating staves in one dipod – which the poets of that time considered superfluous.
2013 July 5, Scott L. Balthazar, Historical Dictionary of Opera, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 356:“Stave-rhyme” is an alliterative technique in medieval Germanic poetry, in which the consonants of accented syllables (staves) within the first half of a poetic line reappear in accented syllables of the second half of the line.