The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and miscellaniesAMS Press, 1979 |
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... trochee . In the beginning of a line a trochee is often used for an iambus . " Blending is the plain English for synæresis - but there should be no blending ; neither is an anapæst ever employed for an iambus , or a dactyl for a trochee ...
... trochee . In the beginning of a line a trochee is often used for an iambus . " Blending is the plain English for synæresis - but there should be no blending ; neither is an anapæst ever employed for an iambus , or a dactyl for a trochee ...
Page 239
... trochee and what they term a pyrrhic that is to say , a foot of two short syllables - a thing that cannot be , as I shall presently show . But now , there is an obvious difficulty . The as- trologos , according to the Prosodies ' own ...
... trochee and what they term a pyrrhic that is to say , a foot of two short syllables - a thing that cannot be , as I shall presently show . But now , there is an obvious difficulty . The as- trologos , according to the Prosodies ' own ...
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... trochee , we should converse the bastard iambus thus , ( many a . ) In the quick trochee , each of the three concluding syllables , being the sixth of long , should be accented , below , with a small 6 ; the whole foot would be thus ...
... trochee , we should converse the bastard iambus thus , ( many a . ) In the quick trochee , each of the three concluding syllables , being the sixth of long , should be accented , below , with a small 6 ; the whole foot would be thus ...
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