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Some Problems in Prosody (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Some Problems in Prosody The situation can be better understood, if it is remem bered that the music which lives, is mostly in 'common time.' The trashy and transitory character of popular modern hymns is partly due to the fact that so many of them are written in g, g, and 3 time.2 Genuine Iambic measures in s time can be made most effective as a vehicle for the lampoon, for there is a sneer in the very nature of their rapid and jerky movement. Other dipodic feet can be adjusted to s time, but the natural tendency of mod ern speech would throw them into and it is doubtful whether ancient ears differed from modern ones in the mat ter of time relations: In English similar peculiarities were found, and no one seems to have fully grasped the problem to be solved. For the Charge of the Light Brigade, two analyses are possi ble on the present basis, but it is difficult to say which produces the worse effect, that with Dactyls, such as Poe might have used, or the accepted one (lanier's) with Tri brachs3 (1 - 1 provided that each is accurately followed. The latter, in a time, results in an insipid waltz movement utterly out of keeping with the character of the poem, ' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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