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Samuel Ernest Sprott. CHAPTER VI SUPERNUMERARY SYLLABLES AND ELISION ALTHOUGH there can never be less than ten syllables in the normal blank verse line in Milton's poetry , there may on occasion be more . Such supernumerary syllables may ...
Samuel Ernest Sprott. CHAPTER VI SUPERNUMERARY SYLLABLES AND ELISION ALTHOUGH there can never be less than ten syllables in the normal blank verse line in Milton's poetry , there may on occasion be more . Such supernumerary syllables may ...
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Samuel Ernest Sprott. Extrametrical supernumerary syllables are of two types , ac- cording to the position in which they occur . FINAL EXTRAMETRICAL SUPERNUMERARY SYLLABLES appear at the ends of lines , after the tenth syllable , as in ...
Samuel Ernest Sprott. Extrametrical supernumerary syllables are of two types , ac- cording to the position in which they occur . FINAL EXTRAMETRICAL SUPERNUMERARY SYLLABLES appear at the ends of lines , after the tenth syllable , as in ...
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... SUPERNUMERARY SYLLABLES In Paradise Lost , it is an observed fact that within the line syllables which at first sight appear to be extrametrical may with only two exceptions always be ' elided ' from the scansion to leave only two ...
... SUPERNUMERARY SYLLABLES In Paradise Lost , it is an observed fact that within the line syllables which at first sight appear to be extrametrical may with only two exceptions always be ' elided ' from the scansion to leave only two ...
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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