Syllabic verse is a poetic form having a fixed or constrained number of syllables per line, while stress, quantity, or tone play a distinctly secondary...
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Accentual-syllabic verse is an extension of accentual verse which fixes both the number of stresses and syllables within a line or stanza. Accentual-syllabic verse...
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such as English, as opposed to syllabic verse which is common in syllable-timed languages, such as French. Accentual verse is particularly common in children's...
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Metre (poetry) (redirect from Quantitative Verse)
major types are: accentual verse, accentual-syllabic verse, syllabic verse and quantitative verse. The alliterative verse found in Old English, Middle...
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Iambic tetrameter (category Types of verses)
iambic tetrameter was adopted to describe a similar metre in accentual-syllabic verse, as composed in English, German, Russian, and other languages. Here...
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Iamb (redirect from Iambic Verse)
Iamb, iambus, or iambic may refer to: Look up iamb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Iamb (poetry) Choliamb Iambus (genre), or iambic poetry Iambic trimeter...
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forest he does – it to seek ।।) Caesura is very important in Polish syllabic verse (as in French alexandrine). Every line longer than eight syllables is...
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Alexandrine (redirect from Alexandrine Verse)
in syllabic and in accentual-syllabic verse, being more highly constrained than most syllabic verse, and less so than most accentual-syllabic verse. Moreover...
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Old East Slavic literature (section Syllabic verse)
Medvedev and Mardary Khonykov [ru]. The principle of syllabic symmetry was dominant. A twelve-syllable verse with a caesura after the fifth or sixth syllable...
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Iamb (poetry) (section Accentual-syllabic use)
(f.)"). This terminology was adopted in the description of accentual-syllabic verse in English, where it refers to a foot comprising an unstressed syllable...
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representation of 8-bit syllables or bytes Syllabic verse, poetry that has a certain number of syllables per line Syllabic text setting in music, in which each...
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that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of...
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borrowed from both native and Latin traditions to create elaborate syllabic verse forms, and used them for religious and nature poetry. The concerns of...
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Glossary of poetry terms (section Verse meters)
Traditional Welsh Accentual verse Accentual-syllabic verse Syllabic verse Adonic Aeolic Glyconic: most basic form of aeolic verse. Alcmanian Archilochian...
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the same rhyme at the end of each line --- that is to say a 7-7-7-7 Syllabic verse, with an AABB rhyme scheme. "Catitibay ca tolos sacaling datnang agos...
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Elizabeth Daryush (section Syllabic style)
great deal to the Edwardians." Daryush took her father's experiment in syllabic verse a step farther by making it less experimental; whereas Bridges' syllable...
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Crapsey decided to make the criterion a stanza of five lines of accentual-syllabic verse, in which the lines comprise, in order, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 1 stresses and...
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Iambic trimeter (category Types of verses)
Publilius Syrus, and the tragedies of Seneca the Younger. In the accentual-syllabic verse of English, German, and other languages, however, the iambic trimeter...
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Iambic pentameter (category Types of verses)
were adapted to describe the equivalent meters in English accentual-syllabic verse. Different languages express rhythm in different ways. In Ancient Greek...
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antibacchius is a rare metrical foot used in formal poetry. In accentual-syllabic verse an antibacchius consists of two accented syllables followed by one unaccented...
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Decasyllable (category Types of verses)
ten syllables used in poetic traditions of syllabic verse. In languages with a stress accent (accentual verse), it is the equivalent of pentameter with...
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G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Accent - Accentual verse - Accentual-syllabic verse - Aesthetic movement - Allegory - Alliteration - Allusion -...
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was unrhymed, and has been described as follows: "It is alliterative syllabic verse, lyric in form and heroic in content, in praise of famous men, or in...
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one unstressed syllable followed by two stressed ones. In accentual-syllabic verse we could describe a bacchius as a foot that goes like this: Example:...
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herself among 20th-century poets. Much of her poetry is written in syllabic verse, repeating the number of syllables rather than stresses or beats, per...
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either an iamb (u –) or a trochee (– u). In accentual-syllabic verse (such as formal English verse), the tribrach consists of a run of three short syllables...
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his verse became more open and relaxed, and he increasingly used the syllabic verse he had learned from the poetry of Marianne Moore. Auden's work in this...
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strong elements of parallelism throughout. It is written in a accentual-syllabic verse, with two lines of Iambic pentameter (line 2: "Life for me ain’t been...
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her work in Turkish. Although most of her poetry is free verse, she sometimes uses syllabic verse and she admires Arabic prosody. With love for traditional...
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Milton's Prosody (redirect from Bridges' Prosody of Accentual Verse)
stresses. Thus according to Bridges' analysis Milton was writing a form of syllabic verse. At the time this was a controversial thesis. George Saintsbury disagreed...
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