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Page 14
... scansion to be even less regular than the third : three of its five feet involve substitutions . This hardly accords with one's experience of the verse , and again the culprit is the principle of the foot . What is classically called an ...
... scansion to be even less regular than the third : three of its five feet involve substitutions . This hardly accords with one's experience of the verse , and again the culprit is the principle of the foot . What is classically called an ...
Page 217
... scansion to prescribe or record particular ways of reading a line , as in the two scansions of the same line above , but its fundamental purpose is to reveal the metrical structure that underlies any satisfactory performance , so we ...
... scansion to prescribe or record particular ways of reading a line , as in the two scansions of the same line above , but its fundamental purpose is to reveal the metrical structure that underlies any satisfactory performance , so we ...
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... SCANSION The scansion of a line provides a graphic representation of the relationship between the metrical pattern and the stress pattern ; that is , it shows which metrical rules are employed at particular points to realise beats and ...
... SCANSION The scansion of a line provides a graphic representation of the relationship between the metrical pattern and the stress pattern ; that is , it shows which metrical rules are employed at particular points to realise beats and ...
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