The Rhythms of English PoetryExamines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in any language: the natural rhythm of the spoken language itself; the properties of rhythmic form; and the metrical conventions which have grown up within the literary tradition. He investigates these in order to explain the forms of English verse, and to show how rhythm and metre work as an essential part of the reader's experience of poetry. |
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... timing: the tendency of the stressed syllables of certain languages to fall at perceptually equal time-intervals. The existence of this phenomenon as a perceived characteristic of English speech, at least under certain conditions, is ...
... timing: the tendency of the stressed syllables of certain languages to fall at perceptually equal time-intervals. The existence of this phenomenon as a perceived characteristic of English speech, at least under certain conditions, is ...
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... stress-timing, as a perceptual characteristic of language, does enter into the rhythm of spoken English is, as we have seen, demonstrable, but it need not be assumed that this is the only rhythmic principle at work in the language, nor ...
... stress-timing, as a perceptual characteristic of language, does enter into the rhythm of spoken English is, as we have seen, demonstrable, but it need not be assumed that this is the only rhythmic principle at work in the language, nor ...
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... Stressed syllables tend, not surprisingly, to be longer than unstressed syllables (though this is by no means an ... stress-timing in moulding the rhythms of the language, it obviously does not impose mechanical regularity upon it ...
... Stressed syllables tend, not surprisingly, to be longer than unstressed syllables (though this is by no means an ... stress-timing in moulding the rhythms of the language, it obviously does not impose mechanical regularity upon it ...
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Contents
Rhythm | 57 |
Metre | 145 |
Practice | 283 |
RULES AND SCANSION | 357 |
Bibliography | 363 |
Sources of examples | 376 |
Index | 388 |
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accentual-syllabic verse alternation anapaestic B B B B Ceolred chapter classical approach common metre complex create David Abercrombie deviation discussion distinction double offbeat duple metre duple verse emphasis English metre 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 language linguistic literary metrical form metrical pattern metrical rules metrical set metrical structure metrical style metrical subordination metrical theory metrist movement nonstresses occur offbeat condition optional pause perceived perception phonetic phonological phrase poem poetic poetry poets promotion 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 syllable count syntactic break syntax tension tradition triple metre triple rhythm triple verse trochaic trochee underlying rhythm unrealised beat unstressed syllables words