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	Dana Gioia Online - Accentual Verse
		Frequently they try to analyze accentual verse in terms of metrical feet, but the concept of the foot, which is derived from Greek and Latin verse, has no relevance to this Germanic form.
		Dividing accentual verse into metrical feet can be done (just as it can be done to prose), but it reveals nothing essential about the generative principles of the form.
		Accentual alliterative verse was the dominant English form until the Norman invasion, and it maintained a strong hold on native speakers for centuries afterwards.
	www.danagioia.net /essays/eaccentual.htm (1602 words)

	Accentual verse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Accentual verse has a fixed number of stresses per line or stanza regardless of the number of syllables that are present.
		It is common in languages that are stress timed such as English as opposed to syllabic verse, which is common in syllable timed languages such as classical Latin.
		Accentual verse derives its musical qualities by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in more or less regular patterns, as in this example: to be or not to be (bold represents stressed syllables).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Accentual_verse (166 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Versification
		In this system the constituents of the fundamental pattern of versification are the number of syllables to the line of verse and the arrangement of these syllables according to whether they are pronounced with a greater or lesser degree of energy—that is, whether they are accented or unaccented.
		Thus, in English poetry of almost all periods, the verse structure is created both by the fixed or varying numbers of syllables per line and by the constant alternation of accented and unaccented syllables in definite, recurring sequences within each line.
		Accentual verse remained popular in English as late as the 15th century.
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	Glossary of Literary Terms
		Accentual Verse: Verse in which the metre depends upon counting a fixed number of stresses (which are also known as 'accents') in a line, but which does not take account of unstressed syllables.
		It was adopted as the chief verse form in Elizabethan verse drama, and was subsequently used by Milton in Paradise Lost and in a wide range of subsequent meditative and narrative poems.
		Free Verse: verse in which the metre and line length vary, and in which there is no discernible pattern in the use of rhyme.
	www.english.cam.ac.uk /vclass/terms.htm (5015 words)

	accentual-syllabic verse -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A line of iambic pentameter verse, for example, consists of five feet, each of which is an iamb (an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable).
		Although verse is sometimes used as a synonym for poetry, it is usually understood to be metrical composition that ranks in artistic quality below the level of poetry.
		Verse may be technically skillful, or even dazzling, but lacking in depth or imaginative power.
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	metrical shape and free verse
		Accentual verse is found in popular verse, ballads, nursery rhymes, songs and doggerel.
		Syllabic verse as exemplified by the French alexandrine is not strictly metrical, and twentieth century attempts to write a pure syllabic verse in English have not caught on.
		Free verse originated in France around the middle of the nineteenth century, was championed (briefly) by the founders of Modernism, and has ramified into various forms, some of them indistinguishable from prose.
	www.poetrymagic.co.uk /metre.html (642 words)

	Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY
		Verse in which the metrical system is based on the count or pattern of accented syllables, which establish the rhythm.
		In alliterative verse, the first half-line (hemistich) is united with the second half by alliterating stressed syllables; in the first half-line generally two (but sometimes three) syllables alliterate, while in the second half usually only one.
		The free in free verse refers to the freedom from fixed patterns of meter and rhyme, but writers of free verse employ familiar poetic devices such as assonance, alliteration, imagery, caesura, figures of speech etc., and their rhythmic effects are dependent on the syllabic cadences emerging from the context.
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	Thomson Nelson - English Resource Centre
		Accentual verse and accentual-syllabic verse: The most common formal verse measure or metre is either accentual (where each line of verse has a uniform number of stressed syllables but not of unstressed ones) or accentual-syllabic (where each line has a uniform number of stressed and unstressed syllables).
		Syllabic verse (where the unit of measurement is the number of syllables exclusively) is much less common.
		Narrator (narration, narrative): The narrator is the storyteller in a prose or verse narrative.
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	Mike Snider’s Formal Blog at the Sonnetarium
		Since the rhythm of accentual-syllabic verse depends on the interaction between the meter and the rhythms of ordinary speech, both must be, at some level, perceptible, and neither can be allowed to dominate or distort the other.
		Non-metrical verse (prose poems are not verse, and neither aleatory poems nor things like Silliman's fibonacci-based poem are non-metrical) is utterly different: its rhythm is principally built on repeated grammatical and syntactic structures, or on an interaction between the line as a whole and ordinary speech, or on some combination of the two.
		The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of the declaimer; and there are only a few happy readers of Milton who enable their audience to perceive where the lines begin or end.
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	Meter in Children's Poetry
		Most children's verse creates its major sound effects out of a pattern of syllabic accents, sometimes in conjunction with the total number of syllables in a line (in accentual-syllabic verse); sometimes not (in accentual verse).
		Accentual verse, which relies on a regular number of stresses per line, is an older verse form in English than the accentual-syllabic verse described above, and is often associated with oral or folk verse forms.
		In nursery rhymes and nonsense verse often the pleasure derives precisely from the predictability of the verse: without even knowing the meaning of the words, we can often predict what sound will come next.
	www.richmond.edu /~egruner/english203/poetry.html (754 words)

	METER, RHYTHM AND FREE VERSE
		Verse is said to be in syllabic metre if each line has a fixed number of syllables.
		Exponents of free verse deny that metre is a necessary condition of verse and that -- more often than not - it impedes the expression of thought.
		The emphasis is on the thought and not on the sound of the verse though the prose may have a rhythmic quality.
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	an introduction to poetry rhythm and rhythmic analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Verse is rarely completely regular, but if we a) add the spondee (two unstressed syllables) and the pyrrhic (two stressed syllables), and b) allow individual feet to be replaced (most commonly the iambic by a trochaic foot) then most verse can be scanned succinctly.
		Verse types do indeed fall into normative patterns, but the patterns are derived from the analyses, not the other way round.
		Verse rhythm is not wholly to be represented by simple stressed and unstressed syllables.
	www.poetrymagic.co.uk /advanced/rhythm.html (7809 words)

	accentual verse -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In accentual verse the total number of syllables in a line can vary as long as there are the prescribed number of accents.
		More results on "accentual verse" when you join.
		Quantitative verse is made up of long and short syllables, the duration of which is determined by the amount of time needed for pronunciation.
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	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Accentual Meter
		Accentual meter is meter in which the key element is entirely the number of stresses per line without regard to the total number of syllables or patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
		This is a feature of early Germanic verse in particular, not of accentual verse in general.
		The key concept, perhaps, is that accentual verse does not arrange its accents in patterns dictated by syllables.
	www.everypoet.org /pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17973 (2790 words)

	Accentual verse -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Accentual verse -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Accentual verse has a fixed number of stresses per (A spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent) line or (A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem) stanza regardless of the number of syllables that are present.
		This is an example of the (A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables) iamb, the (A group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm) metrical foot that is most commonly used in English-language poetry.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ac/accentual_verse.htm (164 words)

	Fellowship of Christian Poets - Newsletter
		When we understand how to scan poetry, we are better equipped, to be able to appreciate the art and skill of the poet, than the reader who is ignorant of the technique of scansion.
		accentual - syllabic verse - what the average person would probably have little difficulty in recognizing as poetry ; it follows a strict set of rules, often involving rhyme, has a distinct rhythm, or beat called "meter"; lines are measured in metric feet ;
		A metric foot comprises two or three syllables, and is found in accentual - syllabic poetry.
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	Accentual verse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is common in languages thatare stresstimed such as English as opposed to syllabic verse, which is common in syllable timedlanguages such as classical Latin.
		Accentual verse derives its musical qualities by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in more or less regularpatterns, as in this example: to be or not to be (bold representsstressed syllables).
		For example, in this verse from the balladBarbara Allen, the first and third lines have four stresses each while the second and fourth have three.
	www.therfcc.org /accentual-verse-11305.html (151 words)

	A Review of "Meter in English: A Critical Engagement"
		By "accentual meter" Wallace means lines in which the stressed syllables are counted but the unstressed are not.
		He distinguishes this sort of verse from the meter of Old English, where the rules of alliteration clearly indicate which syllables count as stressed, and would prefer to call the latter "Old English meter" or "alliterative meter" (p.
		That is, she asserts the existence of accentual verse, which is what Wallace denies, but proposes that it is non-metrical in the same way as syllabic verse.
	depts.washington.edu /versif/backissues/vol1/reviews/mahoney.html (5571 words)

	Accentual verse - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Accentual verse - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	Scansion
		Moore herself did not call her verse syllabic: she emphasized instead the construction of a stanza and spoke of her poems as made of stanzas.
		Accentual verse is the oldest, the original meter of English, and unlike syllabics it is easily heard.
		While some have written verse that is truly and entirely nonmetrical, far more poets (to this day) write a nominally “free” verse that is loosely iambic, with uneven line length and unrestricted substitutions and variations.
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	Language Log: An internet pilgrim's guide to accentual-syllabic verse
		For metered verse to be a living form -- as it has been in many cultures around the world, both ancient and modern -- its patterns have to be defined in terms of phonological categories whose patterns poets and their audience can hear and feel.
		For English accentual/syllabic verse, we are dealing with patterns of stressed and unstressed (rather than long and short syllables), and the usual notation is something like acute accents over stressed syllables with breves over unstressed ones, as exemplified in this page.
		The result is verse in which the natural rhythm of linguistic performance, while metrically constrained, need not evoke the regular alternation of the metrical form very strongly.
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	Accentual Verse Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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	Meter Glossary
		a type of verse termed by George Puttenham in 1589 "maimed" because it is missing a syllable in the last foot.
		Iambic pentameter or cinquepace is the rhythm of so-called English `heroic' verse of ten syllables.
		the scanning of verse, that is, dividing it into metrical feet and identifying its rhythm by encoding stressed syllables (stresses, ictus) and unstressed syllables (slacks).
	www.wam.umd.edu /~redman/243/meter.htm (2621 words)

	English Department of Bryn Mawr College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This course will provide a semester-long survey of the formal resources available to students wishing to write poems in English, beginning with syllabic verse, accentual verse, and accentual-syllabic (metered) verse, as well as free verse.
		Students will gain experience writing in a variety of verse forms (including cinquains, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse, and sonnets) and, throughout, the emphasis will be on helping the student locate herself/himself as part of an ongoing tradition of poets writing on particular subjects in particular voices and forms.
		Students in this class are expected to become, not only writers, but also critics of their own and each other’s work, and the term grade is determined partly by written work and partly by in-class participation during discussions of syllabus reading and student poems.
	www.brynmawr.edu /english/courses/ArtW261.html (335 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Accentual Meter
		Accentual meter need not be restricted, of course, to this single four-stress pattern.
		Accentual meter has to be used carefully or it can easily become heavy-handed plodding, but it does offer another tool for the writer who wishes to explore its possibilities.
		It is harder to write accentual pent than trim or tet, but it is still posible.
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	ON THE PROSODY OF ACCENTUAL VERSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		IN both the quantitive and syllabic systems of verse there were strict syllabic rules which gave the metre, while the accentual speech-rhythms which overlaid the metre were secondary and superimposed at the taste of the poet.
		a prosody of English accentual verse as distinct from syllabic verse.
		H we now examine any simple verses written on the accentual system, further laws should appear.And since the verse is framed on the stresses, the first 1 If the reader asks for an example, I suggest the word young in ex.
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	Glossary of Poetic Terms
		Vividly sensational self-revelatory verse, a literary movement led by American poets from Allen Ginsberg and Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and John Berryman.
		a verse line ending at a grammatical boundary or break, such as a dash, a closing parenthesis, or punctuation such as a colon, a semi-colon, or a period.
		a unit of verse whose length is prescribed by a criterion other than the right-hand margin of the page (e.g., a certain length in syllables, meeting a boundary rhyming word, completing a phrase).
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