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... English completely abandoned in favour of strict syllabic English verse . ( ii ) The same number of feet is retained . ( iii ) Two classically short syllables are taken as equalling one English syllable . ( iv ) The final syllables of ...
... English completely abandoned in favour of strict syllabic English verse . ( ii ) The same number of feet is retained . ( iii ) Two classically short syllables are taken as equalling one English syllable . ( iv ) The final syllables of ...
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... English poetic in his ' . . . Short In- stitution of English Poesie ' : 2 But the English Language ariving daily to greater perfection and purity , Poesie must needs accordingly extend to all subjects and occasions , incident to humane ...
... English poetic in his ' . . . Short In- stitution of English Poesie ' : 2 But the English Language ariving daily to greater perfection and purity , Poesie must needs accordingly extend to all subjects and occasions , incident to humane ...
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... English verse might be written in either quantitative or syllabic lines , though the latter practice was normal . Puttenham spent four chapters half - heartedly demonstrating that the quantitative system could be adopted in English with ...
... English verse might be written in either quantitative or syllabic lines , though the latter practice was normal . Puttenham spent four chapters half - heartedly demonstrating that the quantitative system could be adopted in English with ...
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accentual verse apostrophe appear blank verse Book break Bridges Bysshe cadence caesura catalectic choruses classical completely Comus consonant Diekhoff dissyllabic dissyllable edition elided elision emendation ends of lines English enjambement examples fifth foot final elision final extrametrical syllables fourth H. C. WYLD Heav'n iamb iambic pentameters indicate instances L'Allegro later Latin licence long stress lyrical Manuscript medial metre metrical syllable midverse extrametrical Milton's blank verse Milton's intention Milton's prosody Milton's verse Miltonic blank monosyllabic monosyllable number of syllables numbers of lines occur once P.L. Paradise Lost Paradise Regain'd pause percentage poem poet poetry principle pronunciation punctuation Puttenham quantity reader Recession of stress rhyme rhythm rhythmical rule Saintsbury Samson Agonistes scansion semivowel sense sequent vowel short sonnet sound spelling spelt stanza stress position strong accent SUPERNUMERARY SYLLABLES syllabic verse synaloepha thir thou total numbers trochees VIII vpon words θα