Jun Terasawa is a professor in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo.

‘Jun Terasawa is to be congratulated on having written an illuminating work, clear, succinct, and rational… I will happily recommend it to my students.’ - Mark Griffith (Notes & Queries; vol 59:03:2012) ‘Terasawa’s volume is a boon to students learning about Old English Metre for the first time… The book’s subject is vital to anyone who would achieve a sophisticated understanding of the language of Old English poetic texts.’ - Christopher M. Cain (Journal of English and Germanic Philology, April 2014)

• Preface IntroductionAlliterationRhythm: the Basics Rhythm: Advanced TopicsMetre and WordMetre and GrammarOther Problems Related to Old English MetreAppendices Suggested Answers to the ExercisesSome Tips for Scanning Half-lines, with Sample ScansionsGlossary of Metrical TermsBibliographyIndex of Verses and Lines DiscussedGeneral Index

Jun Terasawa is a professor in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo.

‘Jun Terasawa is to be congratulated on having written an illuminating work, clear, succinct, and rational… I will happily recommend it to my students.’ - Mark Griffith (Notes & Queries; vol 59:03:2012) ‘Terasawa’s volume is a boon to students learning about Old English Metre for the first time… The book’s subject is vital to anyone who would achieve a sophisticated understanding of the language of Old English poetic texts.’ - Christopher M. Cain (Journal of English and Germanic Philology, April 2014)

• Preface IntroductionAlliterationRhythm: the Basics Rhythm: Advanced TopicsMetre and WordMetre and GrammarOther Problems Related to Old English MetreAppendices Suggested Answers to the ExercisesSome Tips for Scanning Half-lines, with Sample ScansionsGlossary of Metrical TermsBibliographyIndex of Verses and Lines DiscussedGeneral Index