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... syllables to each line . Now examine the marks in the separate squares to determine whether one combination is represented far more frequently than any other . If you have marked and done your transcrib- ing with care , you will find ...
... syllables to each line . Now examine the marks in the separate squares to determine whether one combination is represented far more frequently than any other . If you have marked and done your transcrib- ing with care , you will find ...
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... syllables twenty - five are unstressed and twenty - nine are stressed . The quality of the verse does not become too heavy or too light , for the varying feet which contain two stressed syllables are ap- proximately balanced by those ...
... syllables twenty - five are unstressed and twenty - nine are stressed . The quality of the verse does not become too heavy or too light , for the varying feet which contain two stressed syllables are ap- proximately balanced by those ...
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... syllables to the line , which continues to have the customary five accented syllables . There may be , of course , spondees , and the stressed syllables are then increased in number . But one reads with a sense that there are five feet ...
... syllables to the line , which continues to have the customary five accented syllables . There may be , of course , spondees , and the stressed syllables are then increased in number . But one reads with a sense that there are five feet ...
Contents
ENRICHMENT | 16 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 33 |
THE MECHANICS OF POETRY | 49 |
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