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University of Calcutta. Journal of the Department of Letters

1943

Certainly it is true that today the mere presence of one of the vowels e ae A 0 is enough in itself to give the impression of stress without the help of any of the other means of giving prominence. [...] In This is the house that Jack built " there is a very marked lengthening of the consonant k at the end of Jack consisting of an interval between the closing of the consonant and the opening or plosion ' which occurs only just before the first consonant of the next word. [...] Some prosodists would write the 'many I 'change ; this has the advantage of suggesting the rest after many ' which is essential to the metre but it brings the stress into the middle of the foot and so deprives it of its function as indicating the divisions of time. [...] (As was remarked above for the purpose of scansion each bar can virtually be regarded as two separate feet ) It will be seen that counting the dashes at the end of the second and fourth lines the whole stanza contains exactly eight bars or sixteen feet the unstressed up-beat " at the beginning of each line completing the last bar of the previous line and that at the beginning of the stanza cor [...] In the musical rendering the time periods represented by the dashes at the ends of the second and fourth lines would probably be occupied by continuing the sound of the last word of the line through three-quarters of a bar ; but the rhythmical effect would be precisely the same if part or all of this period were filled by a rest which would probably be the case if the lines were said instead of b
humanities general
Pages
418
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120022
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v unknown view
English Prosody
1-37 C.S. Milford view
Article
1-80 unknown view
Associate Life in the Gama
1-13 Atindra Bose view
Philosophy of Bosanquet
1-97 Benoy Ray view
Place—Names of Bengal
1-70 Krishnapad Goswami view
William Somerset Maugham Novelist and Story-Teller
1-115 Nitish Basu view
Appendix
1-1 unknown view

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