Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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Page 70
... pronunciation of the verse , and this was a poetic device to shorten the measure , but might not have been usual in everyday speech . What is perhaps indeterminable is whether or not the lost vowels left behind their ' tail - glides ...
... pronunciation of the verse , and this was a poetic device to shorten the measure , but might not have been usual in everyday speech . What is perhaps indeterminable is whether or not the lost vowels left behind their ' tail - glides ...
Page 98
... pronunciation , elision , in the true meaning of the word as a device belonging to the scansion , always takes place com- pletely where a syllable which would otherwise be extrametrical is found under any of the conditions described ...
... pronunciation , elision , in the true meaning of the word as a device belonging to the scansion , always takes place com- pletely where a syllable which would otherwise be extrametrical is found under any of the conditions described ...
Page 139
... pronunciations of his century . Access - always- . - Accessories once at P.L. , IX , 520 , where it is Adverse - occurs ... pronunciation used by poets from Shake- speare to Tennyson . Complete usually but once ( C. , 421 ) of stress ...
... pronunciations of his century . Access - always- . - Accessories once at P.L. , IX , 520 , where it is Adverse - occurs ... pronunciation used by poets from Shake- speare to Tennyson . Complete usually but once ( C. , 421 ) of stress ...
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