Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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Page 53
... accent , and a short stress ( and a light accent ) always precedes a long stress ( and a strong accent ) ; so that in each line there are five long stresses corresponding to five strong accents , and these alternate with five short ...
... accent , and a short stress ( and a light accent ) always precedes a long stress ( and a strong accent ) ; so that in each line there are five long stresses corresponding to five strong accents , and these alternate with five short ...
Page 110
... accent to hands : With head , hands , wings ( rest ) Or feet pursues his way . ( rest ) 2 The impracticability of a succession of more than two light accents in pronunciation had been recognized by Puttenham . For your foote tribracchus ...
... accent to hands : With head , hands , wings ( rest ) Or feet pursues his way . ( rest ) 2 The impracticability of a succession of more than two light accents in pronunciation had been recognized by Puttenham . For your foote tribracchus ...
Page 135
... Accent . In Milton's verse , polysyllabic words so consistently preserve a secondary accent on the second syllable after that which con- tains the primary that this accentuation is a distinguishing feature . It is probable that it was a ...
... Accent . In Milton's verse , polysyllabic words so consistently preserve a secondary accent on the second syllable after that which con- tains the primary that this accentuation is a distinguishing feature . It is probable that it was a ...
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