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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... stressed and unstressed syllables . In other words , the verse is what we will call purely syllabic . A curious specimen of a similar form of verse is found in a Latin MS . of the 9th century , in a poem on the removal of a Saint's ...
... stressed and unstressed syllables . In other words , the verse is what we will call purely syllabic . A curious specimen of a similar form of verse is found in a Latin MS . of the 9th century , in a poem on the removal of a Saint's ...
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... stress . ( 3 ) Quantitative verse had been made easy by the quanti- tative character of the language and by an almost entire absence of accentual stress : - but as the former decayed and the latter came in , quantitative writing became ...
... stress . ( 3 ) Quantitative verse had been made easy by the quanti- tative character of the language and by an almost entire absence of accentual stress : - but as the former decayed and the latter came in , quantitative writing became ...
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... stress , but merely the parallelism that was enforced by uniformity in the number of syllables per verse ; and that when there seems to be a strictly accentual rhythm in the later verses , its appearance is in general the result of a ...
... stress , but merely the parallelism that was enforced by uniformity in the number of syllables per verse ; and that when there seems to be a strictly accentual rhythm in the later verses , its appearance is in general the result of a ...
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... stress , or only the feeling for parallelism and uniformity in the counting of syllables . This is indeed but another way of stating the main question at issue , for if the rhythmical ictus survived , then the later versi- fication ...
... stress , or only the feeling for parallelism and uniformity in the counting of syllables . This is indeed but another way of stating the main question at issue , for if the rhythmical ictus survived , then the later versi- fication ...
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... stress does not fall upon the accented syllable . That this would in all like- lihood not be the case if it were not designed , is made sufficiently clear ( without consideration of antecedent probability ) by observation of the shorter ...
... stress does not fall upon the accented syllable . That this would in all like- lihood not be the case if it were not designed , is made sufficiently clear ( without consideration of antecedent probability ) by observation of the shorter ...
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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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