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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... contains 16 syllables , distinctly divided into hemistichs of 8 syllables each . So far as has yet been proved , there is no regular recurrence of long and short , or of stressed and unstressed syllables . In other words , the verse is ...
... contains 16 syllables , distinctly divided into hemistichs of 8 syllables each . So far as has yet been proved , there is no regular recurrence of long and short , or of stressed and unstressed syllables . In other words , the verse is ...
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... contains 21 syllables , with a cæsura after the 12th . No further regularity , either metrical or rhyth- mical , can be perceived . Such a verse could probably not have been written except for music , but the specimen is given here ...
... contains 21 syllables , with a cæsura after the 12th . No further regularity , either metrical or rhyth- mical , can be perceived . Such a verse could probably not have been written except for music , but the specimen is given here ...
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... that from the same book I found no difficulty in matching each hemistich in the 39th of the Instructiones ( containing 26 lines ) , having selected that passage quite at random . § 13. Objections to Meyer's theory . But plausible as 15 -
... that from the same book I found no difficulty in matching each hemistich in the 39th of the Instructiones ( containing 26 lines ) , having selected that passage quite at random . § 13. Objections to Meyer's theory . But plausible as 15 -
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... contains 7 syllables , it must contain 2 dactyls ; if only 5 syllables , 2 spondees : its scansion is doubtful only if it contains just 6 syllables . So in the 2d hemistich there can be no doubt except where there are exactly 9 ...
... contains 7 syllables , it must contain 2 dactyls ; if only 5 syllables , 2 spondees : its scansion is doubtful only if it contains just 6 syllables . So in the 2d hemistich there can be no doubt except where there are exactly 9 ...
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... contain no inversions except such as are common in modern English poetry . A solis ortus cardine Ad usque terrae limitem Christum canamus principem , Natum Maria virgine . Beatus auctor saeculi Servile corpus induit , Ut carne carnem ...
... contain no inversions except such as are common in modern English poetry . A solis ortus cardine Ad usque terrae limitem Christum canamus principem , Natum Maria virgine . Beatus auctor saeculi Servile corpus induit , Ut carne carnem ...
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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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