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	Versification - MSN Encarta
		Theoretically, any phonetic characteristics of a language, such as the number of syllables in an utterance, the degrees of energy or lengths of time taken to utter them, or even their pitch, may be organized into an orderly and symmetrical pattern.
		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.
		In accentual-syllabic versification the basic unit of measurement is known as the foot.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566707/Versification.html (418 words)

	Versification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There is an extraordinary range of theories of versification, but they all derive from this ancient premise, however much transformed by criticism since the Renaissance: verse is an aural phenomenon that writing only transcribes, and, if anything, deforms.
		Yet when discussing versification all critics realize that, as William Carlos Williams put it in an essay on free verse, "The crux of the issue is measure" (Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 289).
		In terms of any system of versification that describes verse-writing as the recording or imitation of an actual or hypothetical act of speaking, the poem is out of bounds.
	oregonstate.edu /versif/backissues/vol1/essays/rothman.html (5407 words)

	versification - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		VERSIFICATION [versification] principles of metrical practice in poetry.
		In different literatures poetic form is achieved in various ways; usually, however, a definite and predictable pattern is evident in the language.
		The Arabic Theory of Prosification and Versification: On Hall and Nazm in Arabic Theoretical Discourse.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/v1/versific.asp (594 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for versification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Versification at Amazon Qualified orders over $25 ship free Millions of titles, new and used.
		versification VERSIFICATION [versification] principles of metrical practice in poetry.
		Versification and translation in Sir Beves of Hampton.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/13430.html (535 words)

	Versification - MSN Encarta
		Finally, rhyme, which was discussed as part of the theoretical pattern of English verse, is of extreme importance in contributing to the sound quality of poetry.
		The versification of classical Greek and Latin poetry is said to be quantitative because its main principle of patterning is the length of time taken to utter syllables, in contradistinction to the stress, or degrees of energy with which they are uttered, as in English.
		In the typical foot of a dactylic hexameter, for example (see Latin example in the accompanying table), the first syllable is thought of as being longer than the other two and not as being accented more strongly than the others.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566707_3____10/Versification.html (664 words)

	DITL - article VERSIFICATION / Versification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Versification is the study of the text type called verse (cf.
		In particular, versification is the study of rhymes (q.v.), rhyme schemes, stanzas, line length (number of units such as syllables or accents), line structure, alliteration, rhythm, sound symbolism, semantic parallelisms, and (depending upon the language or period) many other features.
		The outcome of versification studies should be to enable us to explain why and how, for both writers and readers, verse is a useful tool for communication: in other words, why it is not a waste of time to write in verse rather than prose.
	www.ditl.info /arttest/art932.php (444 words)

	THE RATIONAL USE OF VERSE: CRITICISM by E. A. Poe (1850) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Versification is not the art of arranging, etc, but the actual arranging- a distinction too obvious to need comment.
		Pindaric odes are, surely, instances of versification, yet these compositions are noted for extreme diversity in the length of their lines.
		It may be urged, however, that our prosodist's intention was to speak of the English metres alone, and that, by omitting all mention of the spondee and pyrrhic, he has virtually avowed their exclusion from our rhythms.
	bau2.uibk.ac.at /sg/poe/works/criticis/rational.html (10056 words)

	Shakespeare: His progress in versification
		This, while it is of the highest importance for the arrangement of his work, requires merely a little attention to the prosody of his predecessors, and a moderate degree of patient and intelligent observation, to make it comparatively plain sailing.
		In no respect is the Meres list of more importance than in this; for, though it does not arrange its own items in order, it sets them definitely against the others as later, and enables us, by observing the differences between the groups as wholes, to construct the order of sequence between individual plays.
		Putting these facts together with the certain conditions of prosody in the plays of the Marlowe group, and in the nondescripts of the third quarter of the sixteenth century, we are in a condition to judge Shakespeare’s progress in versification with fair safety.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/shakespeare022.html (957 words)

	E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore
		It may be said, indeed, that we are without a treatise upon our own versification, In our ordinary grammars, and in our works upon rhetoric in general, may be found occasional chapters, it is true, which have the heading, "versification;" but these chapters are, in all instances, exceedingly meagre.
		Versification is not the art of arranging, andc., but the actual arranging — a distinction too obvious to need comment.
		That by the term "versification" our prosodists intend rhythm, or metro, in general, cannot be doubted; for the making of a single verse, is versification; yet from no single verse of a poor can be gathered any idea of its general rhythm.
	www.eapoe.org /works/essays/nuengvb.htm (6960 words)

	Poetry
		The first four objections are essentially political from a left point of view (anarchist rather, though those who support them profess to be of the left) and may be considered as a group.
		An easy reply to the first might be that versification was common to all societies at all times, and that the word “traditional” as used here has little meaning, except as some kind of antithesis to another blanket term: “modernist.” Modernism, as used now, comprises a wide range of practices.
		If employed in a stricter historical sense, one might ask why a movement that began a hundred or so years ago should be thought to be the last word on anything.
	www.poetrymagazine.org /magazine/0206/comment_177613.html (3153 words)

	Versification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Unlike ordinary language, which is mainly concerned with the transfer of information, poetry is concerned with the thing 'well-said', with beauty, non-literal meaning, images, and language itself.
		For example, when Achille, in Omeros, discovers that "a thorn vine gripped his heel," Walcott is alluding to the Greek Achilles and the vunerability of his heel.
		An Essay On Poetry, its versification, forms and imagery with some notes on reading and writing....
	www2.potsdam.edu /henryrm/Versification.htm (738 words)

	XML schema for versification variations / Mete Kural <metekural@yahoo.com>
		Hello everyone, I was just wondering if there are any estimates as to when the below mentioned XML schema for declaration of versification variations will be released: "BTG intends to develop an XML schema for declaration files that can express such systems, and their mapping to other systems.
		Here are major standards for versification used by UBS/Paratext that should be supported eventually by OSIS.
		But I am wondering if you are thinking that the schema is a tool that will validate all the different versifications or a tool that will switch between them....
	whi.wts.edu /mailingLists/osis-user/archive/2004/2004-12/1102462013432 (561 words)

	The fortunes of formalism by David Yezzi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For readers interested in versification, there are a number of excellent recent books on the subject that avoid Matthews’s stylistic wooliness (“The sonnet is the noblest of all fixed forms”).
		Formal versification is the primary structure of poetic order, the assurance to the reader and to the poet himself that the poet is in control of the disorder both outside him and within his own mind.
		Certain poets have responded to Tate’s assertions with the argument that it is not the job of the poet to control disorder but to describe it for the reader in a form that reflects the essential disjunctions of contemporary life.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/23/apr05/yezzi.htm (2418 words)

	Amazon.com: A History of English Versification: Books: Jakob Schipper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Within this first-order distinction, the domain of English versification (as theory) is treated under each of its topics or aspects: Meter, Verse, Stanza, Rhyme and Sonnet.
		The study of English versification begins with the high Renaissance in England, so that the historical range is effectively coterminous with Modern English, Middle and (especially) Old English being for our purposes distinct enough so as virtually to constitute a foreign language.
		The books and articles devoted to versification written in the last two decades has not been equaled since Jakob Schipper's seminal Englische Metrik (1880-88) provoked a heavy flurry of interest in prosodic matters for over thirty years.
	amazon.com /History-English-Versification-Jakob-Schipper/dp/0898750539 (580 words)

	Spanish Versification
		Free verse: poetry which is free from the constraints of normal versification.
		Tercetos are groups of interlocking 3-line stanzas rhyming aba bcb cdc etc.
		Versification: the study of the metre of poetry.
	homepages.ed.ac.uk /huwl/undergraduate/poetry.html (848 words)

	INTRA - Interactive Tutorial on Rhythm Analysis - 4 - Versification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In this section on versification, we will concentrate our energies on understanding only one of the many different conventional patterns that enable and constrain poetic composition, namely the meter traditionally referred to as iambic pentameter.
		The reasons for forsaking Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter, Hopkins' sprung rhythm, triple meters, falling duple meters, etc. here are both practical (time and space) and conceptual.
		Finally, with specific reference to poetry, the definition indicates that meter segments a text into hierarchical patterns of beats that we can call measures.
	academic.reed.edu /english/intra/4.html (405 words)

	Versification Info Page
		To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Versification Archives.
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		Versification list run by versif at u.washington.edu, jtate at u.washington.edu
	mailman1.u.washington.edu /mailman/listinfo/versification (257 words)

	Find in a Library: Remarks on Shakespeare's versification.
		English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Versification.
		To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above.
		WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/15dc4486e73f3160.html (51 words)

	Amazon.com: Versification: A Short Introduction: Books: James McAuley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He does devote a short final chapter to versification based on accent, syllable count, free verse and "classical" meters but the book as a whole focuses on metrical verse.
		What makes this book a classic is its constant reference back to stress in normal speech - it suceeds in showing meterical verse as a natural outgrowth of what we do naturally.
		The only flaw in the book is that examples tend to be extracts rather than full poems, but that is appropriate for the intended use of the book "a short introduction" as claimed by its subtitle.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/087013096X?v=glance (684 words)

	French Versification
		The basic elements of French versification are syllable-count (le compte des syllabes), rhythm (le rythme) which results from stress (l’accent), rhyme (la rime) and stanza form (la forme strophique; la strophe = stanza).
		Century poem entitled Le roman d’Alexandre) which occupies the place of importance in French versification; and owing to its length, it offers the greatest scope for variety of stress.
		The caesura traditionally falls at the end of the sixth syllable, dividing the line into two halves or
	www.departments.ex.ac.uk /french/ingrid/versification.htm (1400 words)

	versification : an electronic journal of literary prosody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		versification : an electronic journal of literary prosody
		Welcome to the new home of Versification: An Electronic Journal of Literary Prosody.
		Please browse around and let us know what you think.
	oregonstate.edu /versif (53 words)

	Poe: The Poetic Principle
		In our ordinary grammars and in our works on rhetoric or prosody in general, may be found occasional chapters, it is true, which have the heading,
		"Versification," but these are, in all instances, exceedingly meagre.
		Some of the dactyls are not so good as I could wish, but, upon the whole the rhythm is very decent- to say nothing of its excellent sense.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/poe/rationale.html (9905 words)

	Pawel Marcisz - My Versification's Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Here you have some versification's links to on-line resources I have found and I use.
		Versification in Poetry – very good but also very big (146 kb)
		Shakespeare: His progress in versification and links related
	pawel.kn.bielsko.pl /english/versification.html (62 words)

	Versification - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=versific (602 words)

	Sirach Versification Comparison - NRSV, RSV, Rahlfs
		Sirach, its complexity is frustrating if not daunting.
		Note that only the differences in versification are given.
		has the same versification as the NRSV, there is no listing.
	www.bombaxo.com /sirachcomp.html (189 words)

	Shadow Poetry's Community of Poets -- Member Poetry -- Versification View
		Shadow Poetry's Community of Poets -- Member Poetry -- Versification View
		To view a poet's bio and poetry, click on their name, ring the doorbell, or knock to enter their poetry home.
		Click on "For Rent" to find out how you can display your poetry on this site.
	www.shadowpoetry.com /members/versificationview.html (66 words)

	Biblical Versification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		[ Home ] [ Biblical Stuff ] [ Biblical Versification ]
		The links below lead to different sets of pages I've worked up dealing with various issues
		innocent reader!) done chart of LXX-MT-NT-NRSV versifications (taking NRSV as
	www.bombaxo.com /versification.html (109 words)

	Versification
		In classical music, one may just pick up at random:
		Historically, pure syllabic versification has been a comfortable option during the short flare of Provençal poetry, and has been used in France at least to the beginning of the XX century; partly syllabic metres have been also used in Italian poetry in the same period.
		Though, the need seemed to arise soon to stiffen longer verses in order to make them more regular.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/2805/pvers.html (1256 words)

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