A Primer of English VersificationFrom stress to metre - Metrical variation - Metrical accent and speech stress - The actual line of spoken verse - Other systems of versification. |
Contents
Metrical Variation | 11 |
Metrical Accent and Speech Stress | 21 |
The Actual Line of Spoken Verse | 34 |
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A. D. Hope accented syllable accentual verse accentual-syllabic Accentual-syllabic verse alliteration amphibrach anapaestic apostrophe articulation assonance catalectic century Chaucer consonants degree of stress disyllabic Donne Donne's duration effect elision end-stopped English verse enjambment example expressive heptameter heroic couplet iamb iambic line iambic pattern iambic pentameter iambic tetrameter iambic verse last foot line of verse line-length major stresses marked meaning metre and stress metrical accent metrical pattern metrical value metrical variation Milton monosyllabic foot norm number of syllables occur pause phonetic quality phrase pitch poem poet poetry poulter's measure prosody punctuation quantity quatrain reading regarded regular iambic rhymed rhythm rule scansion scheme second syllable sense slight Sonnet sounds speech speech-sound spoken spondee standard kind stanza stress-profile stress-register stress-values substitution of feet Tennyson's tension term thou traditional trimeter trisyllabic metre trisyllabic substitution trochaic line trochaic pattern trochaic verse trochee unaccented syllables versification vowel words