Abstract
For several years, in print and at conferences, Thomas Cable and Hoyt Duggan have debated the theoretical structure of Middle English alliterative verse. I Before this recent spate of interest, the poetry of the Alliterative Revival had long been considered too unregulated to allow strict theoretical rules. In particular, metrists had despaired of discovering a coherent template for the gabble of weaker syllables between strong stresses.2 No firm pattern can be found because we do not know with any certainty the status of final -e, and the status of final -e cannot be determined without a formal pattern for regulating unstressed syllables. The new discussion, however, has demonstrated a
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