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... poetry owe their existence to theories which bear the dust - or the patina - of centuries upon them . 1.1 THE CLASSICAL APPROACH When , in the sixteenth century , English poets , scholars , and educators joined the general European ...
... poetry owe their existence to theories which bear the dust - or the patina - of centuries upon them . 1.1 THE CLASSICAL APPROACH When , in the sixteenth century , English poets , scholars , and educators joined the general European ...
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... poets , they have become established accompaniments to the pentameter . To regard this as a full explanation of the limitations in the use of five - beat verse , however , is to cast poets too completely in the role of servants rather ...
... poets , they have become established accompaniments to the pentameter . To regard this as a full explanation of the limitations in the use of five - beat verse , however , is to cast poets too completely in the role of servants rather ...
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... poets favouring rhythmic regularity can therefore be sharpened : a pause after the fourth syllable is likely to create a special kind of balance , with two heavier beats before it and three somewhat lighter ones after it . Gascoigne ...
... poets favouring rhythmic regularity can therefore be sharpened : a pause after the fourth syllable is likely to create a special kind of balance , with two heavier beats before it and three somewhat lighter ones after it . Gascoigne ...
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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