Practice on PROSODY

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PROSODY

• Irregularities in Disyllabic Measures

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Regular Ones

• Iambic Metre
• Untressedstressed
• Trochee
• StressedUnstressed
• Anapaest
• Two unstressed stressed
• Dactyle
• Stressed Two Unstressed
• Amphibrach
• Unstressed stressedUnstressed

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CATALECTIC

• Verse line at the end of which a syllable has
  been omitted is called Catalectic
• Life is/ short and /time is/ swift
• let my/ ma-ry /be your /care

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ACEPHALOUS

• Thw verse line at the beginning of which a
  syllable is dropped is called Acephalous
• Yet /I think /we are/ not brought /so low
• Weight/ the vess-/el up

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SPONDEE

• A SPONDEE IS SOMETIMES INTRODUCED IN PLACE OF AN
  Iambus or a trochee for the sake of variety
• In that/ sweet mood/ when plea-/ sant thoughts

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HYPERMETRICAL

• Sometime a verse line ends with an unaccented
  syllable which is not required by the metre .
• And he / was left/ la-ment-/ ing

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A Speciman

• Water water everywhere
• And all the boards did shrink
• Water water everywhere
• Nor any drop to drink

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• Wa-ter /wa-ter/ ev-ery-/where
• and all /the boards/ did shrink
• Wa-ter /wa-ter/ ev-ery-/where
• Nor a-/ ny drop/ to drink
• Trochaic tetrametre catalectic alternating with
  iambic trimeter

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