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quantitative verse: a standalone construct

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Poetics

verse whose meter rests on patterns of long and short syllables, as in Greek and Latin, and the attempts to carry it into English.

In poetics, quantitative verse refers to verse whose meter rests on patterns of long and short syllables, as in Greek and Latin, and the attempts to carry it into English. This meaning comes from Attridge (1974) in Well-weighed syllables.[1]

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carry1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct meter2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs short3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Attridge, D. (1974). Well-weighed syllables. Cambridge U P. ISBN 9780521205306

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