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Excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green: Piers the PloughmanThe chief accent fell on the alliterative syllables, of which there could be three, as in the examples given, or two these being the commonest types, or four, or none these rarer. The number of unaccented syllables was immaterial, but a line con sisted normally of four feet, with a caesural pause in the middle. In our poem we find somewhat the same conventions, as in line 3.About the Pu...

Excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green: Piers the Ploughman In purpose the poem is didactic and satiric 1s a series of allegorical visions. The author seeks to expose the sins and abuses O his time, and to instill the religious principles which would reform these, both m the individual and m society. Any work with such an aim is likely to emphasize the darker side of human nature, and this has to be kept m mind 111 using Piers Plowman as a doc...