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... English verse failed to match the high art of the ancients was in its apparent lack of metrical organisation and subtlety , since the only tools of analysis possessed by the early humanists were those of classical prosody , and these ...
... English verse failed to match the high art of the ancients was in its apparent lack of metrical organisation and subtlety , since the only tools of analysis possessed by the early humanists were those of classical prosody , and these ...
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... English - although Saintsbury resolutely , almost gleefully , refuses to give a theoretical account of this distinction . ) Others , however , argued that because the feet of English verse use stress in place of quantity , durational ...
... English - although Saintsbury resolutely , almost gleefully , refuses to give a theoretical account of this distinction . ) Others , however , argued that because the feet of English verse use stress in place of quantity , durational ...
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... English Prosody ( Orpington , Kent ) Saintsbury , George ( 1906-10 ) A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth ... verse ' Journal of English and Germanic Philology 20 , 213-28 Schane , Sanford A. ( 1979a ) ' Rhythm , accent , and ...
... English Prosody ( Orpington , Kent ) Saintsbury , George ( 1906-10 ) A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth ... verse ' Journal of English and Germanic Philology 20 , 213-28 Schane , Sanford A. ( 1979a ) ' Rhythm , accent , and ...
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TRADITIONAL APPROACHES | 3 |
LINGUISTIC APPROACHES | 44 |
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acceptable alliteration allow already alternation approach beat beginning chapter classical common complex conventions course create demands demotion deviation discussion distinction double offbeat duple effect emphasis English example expectations experience expressive fact falling final five-beat four-beat function further give given hand iambic implied offbeat important indicate initial instance inversion kind language less linguistic means metre metrical pattern metrical set movement natural nonstresses normal noted observed occur opening optional pairing particular pause pentameter perceived perhaps phrase poem poetry poets position possible preference principle produces promotion pronunciation provides reader reading realisation reflect regular result rhyme rhythm rhythmic rules scansion semantic sense sequence simple single sounds speech stanza stress strong structure style subordination suggest syntactic tension theory third tradition triple trochaic underlying units unstressed syllables usually variation verse