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... metrical form rests . Thus the formulated rules for , say , iambic pentameter should be capable of generating all the lines which readers would accept as iambic pentameters without generating any lines which would not be accepted ; and ...
... metrical form rests . Thus the formulated rules for , say , iambic pentameter should be capable of generating all the lines which readers would accept as iambic pentameters without generating any lines which would not be accepted ; and ...
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Derek Attridge. speech - apparatus which make the creation and appreciation of metrical form possible . A reader finds a poem metrical when he perceives in its movement an underlying rhythm of the kind discussed in Part Two , and the ...
Derek Attridge. speech - apparatus which make the creation and appreciation of metrical form possible . A reader finds a poem metrical when he perceives in its movement an underlying rhythm of the kind discussed in Part Two , and the ...
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... metrical theory is to make it possible to specify the relationship between the patterns and rules of a particular metrical form and the general rules of the verse tradition . When we start to read a poem in an orthodox regular metre ...
... metrical theory is to make it possible to specify the relationship between the patterns and rules of a particular metrical form and the general rules of the verse tradition . When we start to read a poem in an orthodox regular metre ...
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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