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Lakshmi
Jul 7, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'QUANTITATIVE METER'
Although the metrical system in English poetry is predominantly qualitative, quantitative meter, too, has been attempted in English...
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Lakshmi
Jun 30, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'QUALITATIVE METER'
When studying English poetry, repeated mention of terminologies such as, stressed syllable and unstressed syllable are hard to miss, and...
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Lakshmi
Jun 23, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ANAPEST'
Anapest is antidactylus because it is the reverse of dactyl. What is dactyl? Refer to O's earlier commentary on dactyl, or let us simply...
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Lakshmi
Jun 16, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'DACTYL'
An iamb, trochee and spondee are two-syllabic feet in a verse. A dactyl is a three-syllabic foot in a verse. In a dactylic meter a...
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Lakshmi
Jun 9, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'PYRRHUS'
Like an iamb, a trochee, and a spondee, a pyrrhus, too, is a type of foot in a metrical feet. While a spondee is a pair of stressed...
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Lakshmi
Jun 3, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'SPONDEE'
Like an iamb and a trochee, a spondee, too, is a type of foot in a metrical feet. In a spondee one stressed syllable follows another...
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Lakshmi
May 26, 20212 min read
One Verse Every Week 'CAESURA'
What's Montague? || It is nor hand nor foot --William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II.ii.40) This line is in blank verse. But how is...
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Lakshmi
May 19, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'TROCHEE'
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. (IV.i.10-11) Remember these lines and the three witch sisters in...
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Lakshmi
May 13, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'FEMININE-ENDING BLANK VERSE'
A blank verse with a feminine ending is, not the standard ten-syllabic metre, instead, one more than the ten, ending with an additional...
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Lakshmi
Apr 15, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'BLANK VERSE'
We will start with verse-types in the English language first, only because the content generated, for the moment by 'O', is mainly in...
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