10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAESURAL»
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caesural in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Spondaic Link. — The Hexameter sometimes takes a spondee in the fifth place. It
is then called Spondaic, and generally has a dactyl as its fourth foot : CSrS de- |
um sfibfl- 1 16s mSg- 1 num JSvIs | lucre- | mentum. Virg. 673. Caesural Pause.
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Elements of Latin Grammar
8. Spondaic Line. — The Hexameter sometimes takes a spondee in the fifth place
. It is then called Spondaic, and generally has a dactyl as its fourth foot : Cara d5 |
um sob5- | les mag- | nam J6vis | Incre- | mentum. Virg. 673. Caesural Pause.
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Latin Elegiac Verse: A Study of the Metrical Usages of ...
The rarity of non-caesural and quasi non-caesural lines in the three elegists is
shown in the following table: (a) Non- (b) Quasi Percentage caesural non-
caesura] of (a) + (b) Tibullus I 2. ' 1 ' Just under 2% Propertius 45 3 1 4 Just over 2
% Ovid ...
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A Question of Syllables: Essays in Nineteenth-Century French ...
If one wanted to distinguish between caesural effects in English and French, one
might say that in English verse caesural significance is cumulative, that is,
caesural expressiveness derives from caesural variations over a sequence of
lines; ...
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Elements of Latin prosody and metre
The Caesural pause after the hephthemimeris was also approved of as heroic.
Thus, Virg. Arbori\busque sa\tisque ^Vo|tus, || fiecorique sinister. Idem. Haud
mora \ firosilu\ere su\is: \\ferit athera clamor. In some instances we find lines with
a ...
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Institutes of Latin Grammar
He should also observe that, in using the caesural mark, I have sometimes
placed it at the cutting off", that is, before the syllable cut oft', but oftener,
especially in speaking of the consequent pause, after the syllable cut off. Either
way, the ...
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Exact Methods in Linguistic Research
Iambic caesural pentameter is divided by the caesura into two half-verses, the
first being like iambic dimeter, the second like trimeter. Can one deduce the
regularities of distribution of pyrrhic feet for iambic caesural pentameter from the ...
The ictus falls upon 5saj as the caesural syllable, which on that account L> not
shortened as when it has the thesis in the following example : XpwitB «ya o"x^
7rrpa). b. 1 . 1 5. « □ i In the second lino, the a in dtp crprr/a is also made long, ...
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The Secret Languages of Ireland
With all the reverence due to the memory of Henry Bradshaw, I cannot believe
that these caesural rhymes are intentional. Without exception they are produced
automatically, by the concord of substantive and adjective. One of the stock
literary ...
R. A. Stewart Macalister, 2014
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Ben Jonson's Poems: A Study of the Plain Style
The more the caesural movement of the rhythm coincides with the normal
syntactical pauses, within the limitations set by the meter, the greater the
idiomatic flexibility. Here the hypothetical metrical limitation, or norm, is a unit of
two rhymed ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAESURAL»
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I Left my Heart at Mission Hill with Tony Bennett
His relaxed, smooth, but slightly raspy voice employed perfect caesural pause to many of his familiar tunes, such as “Smile,” ”The Way You ... «Okanagan Life Magazine, Aug 14»
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Often there are pauses within a bar, just as literary poets often include caesural breaks within their lines. These pauses are not necessarily ... «Huffington Post, Nov 10»
