10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNMETRICAL»
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unmetrical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
unmetrical and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rum, Ram, Ruf, and Rym: Middle English Alliterative Meters
fact that in the lines scanned for this study, 12% of his b-verses are unmetrical
because they lack the final, unstressed syllable that Cable, Putter, Stokes, and
Jefferson, and I have found to be a metrical requirement of the b-verse. Based on
this ...
2
California Studies in Classical Antiquity
closely related and unmetrical spellings can provide valuable evidence for the
establishment of rules of metrics, but this article is chiefly limited to the
relationships of unmetrical spellings and the orthography normal in contemporary
prose ...
Judge Philip Levine, Ronald Stroud,
1979
3
Piers Plowman--the Three Versions
... which they had thenv selves, by substitution, rendered unmetrical.3 Their
attentions of this kind included lines which now seem to have been left unmetrical
by the poet, or else were unmetrical in the archetypal ancestor of the A
manuscripts, ...
William Langland, George Kane,
1988
CV for those in P. For instance, in 1.403 he prints osiendit instead of P's est ausus
; and in 1.496 he replaces P's unmetrical reading adhuc uter obruit with V's
constat uter sic obruat. This editorial meddling often has unfortunate results: in
1.132, ...
5
Inscribing Sorrow: Fourth-century Attic Funerary Epigrams
(c4) Unmetrical Verses In this section, I will study two special categories of
inscribed epitaphs, those containing unmetrical hexameters and pentameters,
and those expressed in mixed metrical forms. (c4.l) Unmetrical Hexameters and ...
6
Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial ...
(In Halle and Keyser's system the only way unstressed syllables can render a line
unmetrical, as opposed to merely more complex, is for there to be too many of
them to map onto ten positions.) Kiparsky's theory is an improvement over Halle ...
Donka Minkova, Robert Stockwell,
2002
upodeia' X: Moschopoulean gloss TtpoPaAouevn proves he read the latter form.
607 -6u-e$a XaXb (ARf, MnS etc.), unmetrical; -oueada x with MBOV etc. 607 fiA-
Oee nal y&p x: unmetrical and improper word-order. The lemma in EX is correct ...
Donald J. Mastronarde, Jan Maarten Bremer,
1982
8
The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman:
The easiest change would be eyKAdrcraaa, but having regard to £k Adpvoxos I
prefer &Kuaaaa: as to the metre see what I said on i 6 [144]. v 160 t68' I9a is
unmetrical. The first hand has TOIA, which is merely TOIA written without elision:
read ...
9
Will's Visions of Piers Plowman and Do-well
... which they had them/ selves, by substitution, rendered unmetrical.3 Their
attentions of this kind included lines which now seem to have been left unmetrical
by the poet, or else were unmetrical in the archetypal ancestor of the A
manuscripts, ...
William Langland, George Kane,
1988
Without it this half line is harsh, and quite unmetrical. STEEVENS. Mr. Steevens
reads, after Sir Thomas Hanmer--“ Why, sir, what should you fear ? " and
observes, without it [the added word, sir,] “ this half line is harsh, and quite
unmetrical.
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell,
1821