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... metrist who finds classical prosody , with only two categories of syllable , severely limited , and musical notation too impressionistic and too wedded to the notion of temporal relationships , might well be tempted by this system ...
... metrist who finds classical prosody , with only two categories of syllable , severely limited , and musical notation too impressionistic and too wedded to the notion of temporal relationships , might well be tempted by this system ...
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... metrist sees his task as formulating the rules which make judgements of metricality possible . The clues that lead to these rules do not lie in what the reader thinks he has imbibed , but in the actual judgements he makes of particular ...
... metrist sees his task as formulating the rules which make judgements of metricality possible . The clues that lead to these rules do not lie in what the reader thinks he has imbibed , but in the actual judgements he makes of particular ...
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TRADITIONAL APPROACHES | 3 |
LINGUISTIC APPROACHES | 44 |
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acceptable alliteration allow already alternation approach beat beginning chapter classical common complex conventions course create demands demotion deviation discussion distinction double offbeat duple effect emphasis English example expectations experience expressive fact falling final five-beat four-beat function further give given hand iambic implied offbeat important indicate initial instance inversion kind language less linguistic means metre metrical pattern metrical set movement natural nonstresses normal noted observed occur opening optional pairing particular pause pentameter perceived perhaps phrase poem poetry poets position possible preference principle produces promotion pronunciation provides reader reading realisation reflect regular result rhyme rhythm rhythmic rules scansion semantic sense sequence simple single sounds speech stanza stress strong structure style subordination suggest syntactic tension theory third tradition triple trochaic underlying units unstressed syllables usually variation verse