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... English verse failed to match the high art of the ancients was in its apparent lack of metrical organisation and subtlety , since the only tools of analysis possessed by the early humanists were those of classical prosody , and these ...
... English verse failed to match the high art of the ancients was in its apparent lack of metrical organisation and subtlety , since the only tools of analysis possessed by the early humanists were those of classical prosody , and these ...
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... English – although Saintsbury resolutely , almost gleefully , refuses to give a theoretical account of this distinction . ) Others , however , argued that because the feet of English verse use stress in place of quantity , durational ...
... English – although Saintsbury resolutely , almost gleefully , refuses to give a theoretical account of this distinction . ) Others , however , argued that because the feet of English verse use stress in place of quantity , durational ...
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... English Prosody introd . Harvey Gross ( New York , 1966 ) Sapir , Edward ( 1921 ) ' The musical foundations of verse ' Journal of English and Germanic Philology 20 , 213-28 Schane , Sanford A. ( 1979a ) ' Rhythm , accent , and stress in ...
... English Prosody introd . Harvey Gross ( New York , 1966 ) Sapir , Edward ( 1921 ) ' The musical foundations of verse ' Journal of English and Germanic Philology 20 , 213-28 Schane , Sanford A. ( 1979a ) ' Rhythm , accent , and stress in ...
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LINGUISTIC APPROACHES 8228 | 28 |
THE RHYTHMS OF ENGLISH SPEECH | 59 |
THE FOURBEAT RHYTHM | 76 |
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accentual-syllabic verse alternation anapaestic Bo Bo Ceolred classical approach common metre complex create demotion deviation discussion distinction double offbeat duple metre duple verse emphasis English metre English poetry English verse example falling rhythm five-beat line following line four-beat line four-beat rhythm four-beat verse function iambic pentameter implied offbeat initial inversion initial offbeat Kiparsky language linguistic literary metrical form metrical pattern metrical rules metrical set metrical structure metrical style metrical theory metrist movement nonstresses ŏ B ŏ occur offbeat condition optional pause perceived perception phonetic phonological phrase poem poetic poetry poets pronunciation prosody reader reading rhyme rhythmic form rhythmic structure rhythmic unit scansion semantic sense sequence single offbeat speech rhythms stanza stress contour stress pattern stress-final pairing stress-initial pairing stress-timing stressed and unstressed strong syntactic break syntax tension tradition triple metre triple rhythm triple verse trochaic trochee underlying rhythm unrealised beat unstressed syllables words