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Excerpt from English Verse-Structure: A Prefatory Study
So stated, the proposition may seem a mere truism. Yet note what is implied. It follows that in such a line the ear of a supreme master of English verse-music allowed him to fill up two out of the five periods of his metre with unaccented syllables, or, to speak more exactly, with unaccented syllables and with pauses. Such a fact is somewhat difficult to square with the usual definitions of our iambic verse. Not dwelling on this at present, let us next see how the recognition of periods may sometimes throw new light on the actual nature of a metre, and assist us in scanning it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
