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	Syllabic verse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Syllabic verse is a poetic form having a fixed number of syllables per line or stanza regardless of the number of stresses that are present.
		It is common in languages that are syllable-timed such as Japanese or modern French or Spanish, as opposed to accentual verse, which is common in stress-timed languages such as English.
		Syllabic poetry can also take a stanzaic form, as in Marianne Moore's poem "No Swan So Fine", in which the corresponding lines of each stanza have the same number of syllables.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syllabic_verse (439 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-syllabic verse is an extension of accentual verse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Accentual_verse (160 words)

	Jezik in slovstvo - Povzetki
		Syllabicity can be measured with a simple count: we need to establish how many stressed syllables are there in individual syllabic positions in a line.
		The protestant verse is syllabic; verses in identical position in a stanza have the same length, but their rhythm need not be iambic, trocheean, amphibrachic, etc. Their only metric property is isosyllabicity.
		In rhymes, stressed and unstressed syllables follow the metric pattern more closely than in the rest of the verse (although less than in the 18th and especially 19th century): according to the melodic pattern, the octosyllabic verse should have the masculine rhyme, and it is indeed much more frequent than the feminine one.
	www.ff.uni-lj.si /jis/lat1/045/78s03.HTM (466 words)

	Learn more about Poetry in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The main units that are used are the line, the couplet, the strophe, the stanza, and the verse paragraph.
		In blank verse, verse paragraphs are employed to indicate natural breaks in the flow of the poem.
		In more recent times, the introduction of electronic media and the rise of the poetry reading have led to a resurgence of performance poetry and have resulted in a situation where poetry for the eye and poetry for the ear coexist, sometimes in the same poem.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/po/poetry_1.html (1146 words)

	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.
		In all accentual verse there is also an implied fourth rule—avoid metrical ambiguity by reducing or eliminating secondary stresses that might confuse where the beat falls.
		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)

	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)

	Syllabic verse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is common in languages that are syllable timed such as classical Latin or modern French or Spanish, as opposed to accentual verse, which is common in stress timed language s such as English.
		Bible Verse of the Day Single Bible verse to read or can be sent by email.
		Euclid in Verse A proof of one of Euclid's theorems in verse, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Syllabic_verse.html (472 words)

	Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY, Letter S
		Sidelight: Scansion accounts for syllabic accents and slacks, but does not always differentiate between the relative "weights" of stress, one of the means by which a skillful poet modulates the rhythm for effect.
		A verse, stanza, or a metrical portion of a poem.
		In the quantitive verse of classical poetry, the suppression of one syllable in a metrical pattern, with its time value either replaced by a pause (like a musician's "rest") or by the additional lengthening of an adjoining long syllable.
	www.poeticbyway.com /gl-s.html (2844 words)

	Eng1D_Haiku2
		Syllabic verse measures the lines according to a set number of syllables in each line.
		This type of verse is compressed, relying on imagery, symbolism, and extended or indirect metaphor to carry complex emotions or observations about the world.
		It dates back to the 1300s.This verse consists of five unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables whose intent is to focuss the reader's attention on a single event, or image and the mood that is associated with it.
	elliotlakeeducation.homestead.com /ENG1D_Haiku2.html (429 words)

	metrical shape and free verse
		Conventional English verse is usually (and confusedly) described in a terminology deriving from classical prosody — i.e.
		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 (643 words)

	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.
		This syllabic pattern, or meter, is usually expressed in terms of the number of feet to a line.
	autocww.colorado.edu /~blackmon/E64ContentFiles/LiteraryGenres/Versification.html (2365 words)

	Maria-Kristiina Lotman. Summary of doctoral thesis
		The disposition of accents is governed by other regularities than the syllabic structure: the function of accents is to compensate for the realization of metre where the quantitative-syllabic rules are the most liberated and, thus, the accentual rules are the most rigorous in the middle of verse.
		Verse metre and its semantic colorations and functions in the earlier Ionian tradition, with iambic trimeter being treated in comparison with the early hexameter and choliambus.
		Hexameter, being so-to-say longer verse metre than the choliambus or iambic trimeter, marks great and important things: war, gods, sublime emotions like grief and mourning, while the thematics of iambic trimeter, which was considered the most similar verse form to the everyday speech, is more ordinary and neutral.
	www.ut.ee /klassik/isikud/dok/lotman_eng.html (2956 words)

	A Review of "Meter in English: A Critical Engagement"
		Several contributors agree with Wallace that syllabic verse is a form or technique, but not a meter.
		Hass would call syllabic verse a form like blank verse or the Spenserian stanza: a way of organizing a poem, but not a meter.
		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)

	poeticvoices.com September 2001 Mechanics Column: Learn Syllabic Verse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Syllabic verse is one of the most controversial types of poetry on the market today.
		Variable syllabic verse: sets a maximum number of syllables for the lines and does not exceed that number.
		The two primary controversies over syllabic verse are whether it is acceptable to hyphenate a word at the end of the line in order to adhere to syllable count and how many syllables are in a word.
	www.poeticvoices.com /Mechanics/Mech0109.html (957 words)

	Writer's Encyclopedia--Letter V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Free verse, also called vers libre, is that in which the length of the lines is not measured by a specific number of units.
		Verse paragraphs function much as paragraphs function in prose; they are indicated on the page simply by spaces between groups of lines or initial indentation.
		(The stanza is to the verse paragraph or strophe as metered verse is to free verse.) Stanzas usually have a fairly fixed pattern, or formula, in which lines of the same length are repeated in the same sequence, often reinforced by rhyme patterns.
	www.writersmarket.com /encyc/v.asp (2373 words)

	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)

	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.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001172.html (4300 words)

	Syllabic metres (from prosody) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The count of syllables determines the metres of French, Italian, and Spanish verse.
		It is based on both the number of stresses, or accents, and the number of syllables in each line of verse.
		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).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-50848 (789 words)

	Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY
		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.
		A term applied to a line of verse which is metrically incomplete due to the omission of one or two of the ending unaccented syllables of the final foot.
		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.
	www.poeticbyway.com /glossary2.html (11123 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Syllabics
		To the English ear, the syllabics are invisible and the poem is simply a metric one.
		The syllabic form is 9 / 18 / 18 / 9 (with a stutter in S1.4).
		The difference helps explain why syllabic verse is usual in Italian, French and Spanish, and not usual in English or German.
	www.everypoet.org /pffa/showthread.php?t=40240 (3721 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Although it is not as strict as Syllabic verse for an exact accounting of every line, A-S is likely to seem more regular than Accentual or Podic.
		What syllabic means is that the measure of a line is the total number of syllables.
		The numbers of lines helps define the verse, but it is also possible to have lines of different length or rhythm interwoven into a verse.
	www.poetryrenewal.com /policies/faq.shtml (2885 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 ;
		Elision - Sometimes, for the poet to meet the requirements of accentual - syllabic verse, he makes use of the technique called "elision".
	www.christianpoets.com /news_back/0699.htm (987 words)

	Poetic Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Accentual-syllabic verse: lines whose rhythm arises by the number and alternation of its stressed and unstressed syllables, organized into feet.
		End-stopped: 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.
		Metre (Greek, "measure"): the rhythm of verse, reduceable to one of four kinds, accentual, syllabic, accentual-syllabic, and quantitative.
	unr.edu /homepage/keniston/engl466/terms.htm (745 words)

	English Prosody and Metrics
		Prosody is the study of verse form, its rhythm and patterns, in relation to the structure of meaning in a poem.
		Accentual-syllabic verse is marked with a grave (-á-) over the vowel in an accented syllable and no mark (or, in some cases, a breve [curved 'smile']) over the vowel in an unaccented syllable.
		Another object is to identify and evaluate the association of particular verse forms with particular subject matters, tones or content expectations (as, e.g., the association of the sonnet with love, or of rime royal with serious or philosophical poems).
	www.louisville.edu /a-s/english/dale/301/prosody.htm (1453 words)

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