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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 ...
Page 361
... 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 ...
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TRADITIONAL APPROACHES | 3 |
LINGUISTIC APPROACHES | 44 |
34 | 50 |
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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