English Verse: Theory and History, Volume 1; Volume 117 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 18
Page 61
... seen him with Have you seen him ? ) . The number of strong stresses in a sentence is also determined by the style , and hence , the speed of the utterance : in careless , hasty conversational speech a word may lose its phrasal stress ...
... seen him with Have you seen him ? ) . The number of strong stresses in a sentence is also determined by the style , and hence , the speed of the utterance : in careless , hasty conversational speech a word may lose its phrasal stress ...
Page 74
... seen ; nor can fair Temple boast ( can is somewhat stress- ed ) . Syntactic linkage also decreases if a personal pronoun functioning as a sub- ject is located at a distance from the predicate . In such a case the accentual weight of the ...
... seen ; nor can fair Temple boast ( can is somewhat stress- ed ) . Syntactic linkage also decreases if a personal pronoun functioning as a sub- ject is located at a distance from the predicate . In such a case the accentual weight of the ...
Page 180
... 8 % and 0,1 - 1,4 - 4,8 % respectively ) , there is seen an evolution of dactyllic ( simple and compound ) endings and of heavy feminine and dactyllic endings too . 5. Conclusions . English dramatic verse is less syllabically regular 180.
... 8 % and 0,1 - 1,4 - 4,8 % respectively ) , there is seen an evolution of dactyllic ( simple and compound ) endings and of heavy feminine and dactyllic endings too . 5. Conclusions . English dramatic verse is less syllabically regular 180.
Contents
Verse and Syllable | 17 |
Verse and Word Stress | 40 |
Verse and Phrasal Stress | 60 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
19th century accentual structure adjectives adverbs anacrusis Arden of Faversham atypical syllables average Ballad Byron canonical Chaucer Cymbeline disyllabic words dol'nik Donne Donne's dramatic iambic pentameter dramatic verse Dryden Duchess of Malfi Elegies example extrametrical extrametrical stresses feet Floris and Blancheflour fragment genres iamb iambic pentameter iambic tetrameter ictic positions ictic stress ictus irregular Jonson juncture inversions King Horn lines containing Marlowe maximum meter metrical indices Middle English monosyllabic monosyllables native-English non-ictic positions non-ictic stresses noncorrespondences nondramatic iambic pentameter noniambic nouns number of lines occur omissions Percy phrasal stress poems polysyllabic words Pope pronouns prose models rhythm rhythmic inversions Rossetti Russian Satyres second syllable secondary stress Shakespeare Shelley Sonnets Southey stress profile strong stresses suffixes Swinburne syllabic duplications syllabic positions syllabic structure syllabic verse syllabo-tonic syntagm Table Tennyson ternary three-ictic threshold Titus Andronicus total number triphthong trisyllabic combinations trochaic unstressed syllables variant verbs verse form vowel word stress