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... verse is called syllable - stress verse ( in some terminologies accentual - syllabic ) and was the norm for English poetry from the beginning of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century . A line of syllable - stress verse is made ...
... verse is called syllable - stress verse ( in some terminologies accentual - syllabic ) and was the norm for English poetry from the beginning of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century . A line of syllable - stress verse is made ...
Page 94
... verse for their dramatic lyrics , poems that purport to render the accents of real men speaking . The blank verse of Tennyson's " Ulysses " ( 1842 ) offers smoothly modulated vowel music , carefully spaced spondaic substitutions , and ...
... verse for their dramatic lyrics , poems that purport to render the accents of real men speaking . The blank verse of Tennyson's " Ulysses " ( 1842 ) offers smoothly modulated vowel music , carefully spaced spondaic substitutions , and ...
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... verse effect on poetry itself ( English poets went on writing verses in syllable - stress , the prosody most suitable to the language ) , it produced misbegotten twins of confusion and discord , whose heirs , however named , are still ...
... verse effect on poetry itself ( English poets went on writing verses in syllable - stress , the prosody most suitable to the language ) , it produced misbegotten twins of confusion and discord , whose heirs , however named , are still ...
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