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... words are ' the illimitable ' ( 66 ) , and ' To exhilarate ' ( 67 ) . In careful speech such words retain most of their individual syllabic force , but a rapid pronunciation brings them closer to a single syllable . Within the word ...
... words are ' the illimitable ' ( 66 ) , and ' To exhilarate ' ( 67 ) . In careful speech such words retain most of their individual syllabic force , but a rapid pronunciation brings them closer to a single syllable . Within the word ...
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Derek Attridge. 8.7 PAIRING AND WORD - BOUNDARIES Even more delicate in their rhythmic effect than syntactic boundaries are word - boundaries . We do not normally pause between words unless there are syntactic reasons to do so , yet it ...
Derek Attridge. 8.7 PAIRING AND WORD - BOUNDARIES Even more delicate in their rhythmic effect than syntactic boundaries are word - boundaries . We do not normally pause between words unless there are syntactic reasons to do so , yet it ...
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... words . A sight , an emotion , creates this wave in the mind , long before it makes words to fit it ' ( Virginia Woolf , 1926 , p . 247 ) ; ' I know that a poem , or a passage of a poem , may tend to realise itself first as a particular ...
... words . A sight , an emotion , creates this wave in the mind , long before it makes words to fit it ' ( Virginia Woolf , 1926 , p . 247 ) ; ' I know that a poem , or a passage of a poem , may tend to realise itself first as a particular ...
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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