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... stress - meas- urement will take us a long way , stretches credulity when he describes Milton's system in Paradise Lost as an ' attempt to keep the blank verse decasyllabic by means of fictions ' , and pronounces that a line of ...
... stress - meas- urement will take us a long way , stretches credulity when he describes Milton's system in Paradise Lost as an ' attempt to keep the blank verse decasyllabic by means of fictions ' , and pronounces that a line of ...
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... stress on one side of the caesura and two on the other . ' Now , anyone coming to the verse with an unprejudiced ear would surely find more than three stresses in the line , except where it is truncated , as sometimes to close a ...
... stress on one side of the caesura and two on the other . ' Now , anyone coming to the verse with an unprejudiced ear would surely find more than three stresses in the line , except where it is truncated , as sometimes to close a ...
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Anne Ridler. the speech - stress he wanted , and perhaps we might have missed it , left to ourselves . But I am glad that as a rule poets have not tied us down to one authoritative rhythm , but have ... stress he wanted, and perhaps we ...
Anne Ridler. the speech - stress he wanted , and perhaps we might have missed it , left to ourselves . But I am glad that as a rule poets have not tied us down to one authoritative rhythm , but have ... stress he wanted, and perhaps we ...
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