10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPERMETRICAL»
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hypermetrical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Verse Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Vladimir ...
... tetrameter and trimeter. Furthermore, in all the trimeter stanzas outside the
prologue one or other odd line invariably features a hypermetrical stress (a heavy
hypermetrical stress) on the last syllable of the dactylic clausula, for example: ...
2
Analysing Older English
In Beawulfi the hypermetrical a—verse differs from the hypermetrical b-verse in
having an additional stressed word verse—initially. Item (50) is a representative
hypermetrical a-verse. As with the hypermetrical b—verse, a hypermetrical ...
David Denison, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, Chris McCully, 2011
3
Bandle, Oscar; Braunmüller, Kurt; Jahr, Ernst Hakon; Karker, ...
The ofl'-lines can be trisyllabic, tetrasyllabic, or hypermetrical, and resolution on a
lift other than the first occurs frequently. If the ofl'-line contains three or four
syllables, alliteration falls on the first lift; if it is hypermetrical, alliteration can fall
on ...
4
Bandle, Oscar; Braunmuller, Kurt; Jahr, Ernst Hakon; Karker, ...
The off-lines can be trisyllabic, tetrasyllable, or hypermetrical, and resolution on a
lift other than the first occurs frequently. If the off-line contains three or four
syllables, alliteration falls on the first lift; if it is hypermetrical, alliteration can fall
on the ...
Oskar Bandle, Lennart Elmevik, Gun Widmark, 2002
5
Publii Virgilii Maronis Georgica. The Georgics of Publius ...
This is one of those verses which are called hypermetrical; although, in reality, it
is not so ; for the last syllable, though apparently redundant, is pro- sodieally
elided by ecthlipsis. — "Ecthlipsis (says the old rule) est quo- ties m cum sua
vocali ...
Publius Vergilius Maro, John E Sheridan, 1856
6
Handbook of the English Tongue for the Use of Students and ...
HYPERMETRICAL. 363 I said, | While The moon's | smile Ray'd o'er a stream in
dimpling bliss, The moon | looks On many | brooks, The brook can see no moon
but this.' — Mooee. 6G1. Iambic Dimeter, hypermetrical. Forgive | my f ol | ly, ...
7
Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance
Metrical accents become stronger the broader the level in the hierarchy; in other
words, they are strongest at the hypermetrical level. Hypermeter does not always
exist in music and dance, but when it does, it is usually regular and perceived ...
8
The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and ...
Because ofthe new material which it ushers in and the ascent in the right hand
which takes us there, bar 661 sounds climactic, and a much stronger
hypermetrical downbeat than that found two bars earlier at 64. From this point of
view bars ...
9
The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon: ...
Stan2a t is formally unique, consisting of six hypermetrical lines of mixed iambic
and anapestic feet, having each eleven or twelve syllables and rhyming aa bb cc.
O.2 (and so this edition) indents the last two lines, though the text hardly exhibits
...
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Fredson Bowers, 1996
10
a handbook of modern english metre
Verses with hypermetrical syllables may be conveniently divided into prae-
hypermetrical and post-hypermetrical, according as the extra syllable comes at
the beginning or end ; but as the latter are generally known as feminine lines, I
shall use ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPERMETRICAL»
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She Loves Me, Minerva Theatre, Chichester
... a tight, witty book by Joe Masteroff and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick that are full of those comic quirks and hypermetrical skids that are present in ... «The Independent, May 11»
