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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... essential . I have disregarded all questions as to stanza - form , rime , alliteration , euphony of vowels , and the like , and considered only the internal mechanical * II structure of the individual verse . Even here ,
... essential . I have disregarded all questions as to stanza - form , rime , alliteration , euphony of vowels , and the like , and considered only the internal mechanical * II structure of the individual verse . Even here ,
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... essential principles of English verse , have passed away as rime and syllabism came in . The accentual principle may therefore be regarded as the sole native base of our modern system of verse , even though it is so seldom to be ...
... essential principles of English verse , have passed away as rime and syllabism came in . The accentual principle may therefore be regarded as the sole native base of our modern system of verse , even though it is so seldom to be ...
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... essential condition of the verse . To the second question the answers have been vari- ous , but we may group the most important of them under three heads . The later " rhythmical " system , according to modern opinion , was derived ...
... essential condition of the verse . To the second question the answers have been vari- ous , but we may group the most important of them under three heads . The later " rhythmical " system , according to modern opinion , was derived ...
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... essential thing in all , and that where an accentual rhythm seemed to show itself it was merely accidental . The true explanation is already too clear to need re - statement . Meyer is not content , it is true , with the assumption of ...
... essential thing in all , and that where an accentual rhythm seemed to show itself it was merely accidental . The true explanation is already too clear to need re - statement . Meyer is not content , it is true , with the assumption of ...
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... essential principles which control poets of the 19th century : they do not know whether our blank verse is divisible into feet or not , nor whether it requires in each line three , four or five accents , or indeed any determinate number ...
... essential principles which control poets of the 19th century : they do not know whether our blank verse is divisible into feet or not , nor whether it requires in each line three , four or five accents , or indeed any determinate number ...
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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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