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| | A Review of "Meter in English: A Critical Engagement" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | That is, meter must involve measuring or counting something that is inherent in the language, and must allow the hearer or reader to recognize the pattern. |
 | | That is, a poem in trochaic meter may allow a line in very strict iambic meter, which might also be called a trochaic line with anacrusis, or it may allow a dactylic foot provided the two unstressed syllables are actually pronounced as one: "barberry" in "Where the tangled barberry-bushes" ("Hiawatha," introduction, l. |
 | | In this poem, as in many in triple meter, the line-breaks run counter to the foot-divisions: between the last stress of the first line and the first stress of the second, there are the expected two unstressed syllables, but the line-break comes between them, indicating that they should belong to different feet. |
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