The Foreign Sources of Modern English Versification: With Especial Reference to the So-called Iambic Lines of 8 and 10 Syllables |
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... Commodian's use of dissyllables 16 16 § 15. Commodian's use of polysyllables . § 16. The rationale of Commodian's verse § 17. Commodian's treatment of the cæsura §18 . Concluding remarks CHAPTER III . The Latin Hymns of Ambrose and his ...
... Commodian's use of dissyllables 16 16 § 15. Commodian's use of polysyllables . § 16. The rationale of Commodian's verse § 17. Commodian's treatment of the cæsura §18 . Concluding remarks CHAPTER III . The Latin Hymns of Ambrose and his ...
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... Commodian's ex- periments is easily refutable . LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA the continuous existence of a popular Latin versification of an § The theory of a popular origin (for the Latin "rhythms") Popular verse of ...
... Commodian's ex- periments is easily refutable . LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA the continuous existence of a popular Latin versification of an § The theory of a popular origin (for the Latin "rhythms") Popular verse of ...
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... of descent from Latin to English . The specimens of irregular verse that have just been cited are doubtless mere slovenly imitations of the regular rhythms to be examined later . CHAPTER II . Commodian's Verse . § II . THE 12 Conclusion.
... of descent from Latin to English . The specimens of irregular verse that have just been cited are doubtless mere slovenly imitations of the regular rhythms to be examined later . CHAPTER II . Commodian's Verse . § II . THE 12 Conclusion.
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... Commodian's Verse . § II . THE importance of the subject . One of the most important questions to be determined is whether , as the Roman poets lost their ear for quantity , the feeling which remained uppermost was the feeling for ...
... Commodian's Verse . § II . THE importance of the subject . One of the most important questions to be determined is whether , as the Roman poets lost their ear for quantity , the feeling which remained uppermost was the feeling for ...
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... Commodian cannot have written in ignorance of the true nature of the hexa- meter , or of the laws of quantity , for in certain respects ( as will be pointed out hereafter ) he observes those laws with care : he was , moreover , a man of ...
... Commodian cannot have written in ignorance of the true nature of the hexa- meter , or of the laws of quantity , for in certain respects ( as will be pointed out hereafter ) he observes those laws with care : he was , moreover , a man of ...
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10th century 4th syllable accentual principle accentual rhythm accentual verse Adam of St Alexandrine Ambrosian hymns anapæstic arsis arsis and thesis Augustine Augustine's psalm Aurora lucis rutilat cæsura century Chaucer's church Commodian course dactyls dissyllables early example exhibit explanation fact familiar feet fixed cæsura foot form of verse Fortunatus French decasyllabic French octosyllabics French poet French verse Greek hemistich hexameters ictus imitation influence initial inversions Kawczynski King Horn language late Latin Latin hymns Latin rhythms Latin verse latter lines long syllables metre metrical Meyer modern English modern French number of accents number of syllables octosyllabics passage penults perhaps poem poetry polysyllables probably prose accent prosody purely syllabic quantitative verse quantity quoted read accentually regarded regular rhythmical rime Roman Schipper seems short syllables specimens spondee Stengel stress strictly style syllabic principle syllabic verse theory thesis tonic syllable trochaic trochees verse-end verse-forms versification words wrenched accent
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