Indeed, about the incorrect definitions. (Though the wrongness is of long standing -- see Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.) Doing it by the rules actually used by the Old English poets is hard, though -- the alliteration tends to take over the line, making it chime too insistently. The only post-medieval long alliterative verse I can think of is Auden's The Age of Anxiety.
But with Hobbes, it's not just the meter that's the problem, but the rhyme scheme.
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Date: 26 September 2010 08:02 pm (UTC)But with Hobbes, it's not just the meter that's the problem, but the rhyme scheme.
---L.