Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... emphasis with which a syllable is spoken - either aloud or silently - relative to the emphasis received by contiguous syllables . But to call stress " emphasis " is not to define it , and dis- agreement about the nature of stress is ...
... emphasis with which a syllable is spoken - either aloud or silently - relative to the emphasis received by contiguous syllables . But to call stress " emphasis " is not to define it , and dis- agreement about the nature of stress is ...
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... emphasis ; that is , he should sense which parts of the forms he uses are naturally the appropriate vehicles of emphasis and which are not . A writer of emphatic and interesting prose , for ex- ample , is careful to place his emphatic ...
... emphasis ; that is , he should sense which parts of the forms he uses are naturally the appropriate vehicles of emphasis and which are not . A writer of emphatic and interesting prose , for ex- ample , is careful to place his emphatic ...
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Paul Fussell. the natural emphasis pattern of the line seems a corol- lary of a larger structural insensitivity : we will surely inquire long before we discover the principle of stanzaic division in " Loot . " In matters of emphasis ...
Paul Fussell. the natural emphasis pattern of the line seems a corol- lary of a larger structural insensitivity : we will surely inquire long before we discover the principle of stanzaic division in " Loot . " In matters of emphasis ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
Copyright | |
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