Shemus
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- Hints also at Shem
- Seamus: Irish/Gaelic form of James
- Shem...short...Shemus...Jem...joky...Jacob: Alliterative verse, in which alliteration rather than rhyme is the main poetic foliation, was the most frequent verse technique in Old English poetry (eg., Beowulf)
