Note 474 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY
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Variations may advance the sentence, or simply hold it; thus (Bareaz-Breiz):
Little Azénor the Pale is betrothed, but not to her lover,
Little Azénor the Pale is betrothed, not to her sweet “clerk”;
no advance; otherwise in a refrain:—
Come hearken, hearken, O folk,
Come hearken, hearken to the song!
which suggests the syntactic structure of old English poetry due to alliterative variation.