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... CLASSICAL APPROACH When , in the sixteenth century , English poets , scholars , and educators joined the general European revaluation of classical literature , and set the verse of Greece and Rome on the highest of pedestals , it was ...
... CLASSICAL APPROACH When , in the sixteenth century , English poets , scholars , and educators joined the general European revaluation of classical literature , and set the verse of Greece and Rome on the highest of pedestals , it was ...
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... classical prosody - and applied it to the native English forms . In doing this , they were drawing on procedures which the humanist education instilled at an early age : Prosodia formed the fourth section of Lily's grammar , on which ...
... classical prosody - and applied it to the native English forms . In doing this , they were drawing on procedures which the humanist education instilled at an early age : Prosodia formed the fourth section of Lily's grammar , on which ...
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... classical approach would argue that this picture of two levels , partly coinciding , partly conflicting , reflects what in fact happens as we read metrical verse , and reveals one source of its special character . Many attempts have ...
... classical approach would argue that this picture of two levels , partly coinciding , partly conflicting , reflects what in fact happens as we read metrical verse , and reveals one source of its special character . Many attempts have ...
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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