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... poetry . Readers with an exclusively literary or exclusively linguistic background may find that occasionally they are asked to think in ways more characteristic of the other discipline , but advances in the study of poetic language ...
... poetry . Readers with an exclusively literary or exclusively linguistic background may find that occasionally they are asked to think in ways more characteristic of the other discipline , but advances in the study of poetic language ...
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... poetry sounds much more like other human voices speaking in other situations than it does any non - human sound , such as the galloping of a horse or the rushing of a brook . The most immediate kind of representational power which poetic ...
... poetry sounds much more like other human voices speaking in other situations than it does any non - human sound , such as the galloping of a horse or the rushing of a brook . The most immediate kind of representational power which poetic ...
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... poetry from ordinary language and ordinary experience : we need to examine the ways in which poetic rhythm might operate quite separately from the semantic content of the lines it marshalls , preventing us from taking that semantic ...
... poetry from ordinary language and ordinary experience : we need to examine the ways in which poetic rhythm might operate quite separately from the semantic content of the lines it marshalls , preventing us from taking that semantic ...
Contents
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