Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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Page 53
... long metrical stress which correspond exactly with a light and a strong speech 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 ...
... long metrical stress which correspond exactly with a light and a strong speech 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 ...
Page 62
... long stress . The break is always definite . In ( i ) to ( vii ) , the break is followed by a short stress ; in ( viii ) to ( xii ) , and possibly in ( i ) and ( iii ) , by a long stress , the first of an inverted foot . In both types ...
... long stress . The break is always definite . In ( i ) to ( vii ) , the break is followed by a short stress ; in ( viii ) to ( xii ) , and possibly in ( i ) and ( iii ) , by a long stress , the first of an inverted foot . In both types ...
Page 99
... long stresses , beginning from a short . Now a sequence of more than a very few lines of this character would ... stress position of an inverted ( or , what is now the same thing , a trochaic ) foot which follows after an iamb must be ...
... long stresses , beginning from a short . Now a sequence of more than a very few lines of this character would ... stress position of an inverted ( or , what is now the same thing , a trochaic ) foot which follows after an iamb must be ...
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