An English Prosody on Inductive Lines

alliteration anapaest bisection blank verse blending caesura Canterbury Tales Chaucer cinquepace Compleynt consonant consonantal continuous verse couplet dissyllabic ending dissyllable dramatic extra syllable elision English verse extra syllable extra-metrical final foot four-stress verse French Gentlemen of Verona hath hemistichal inflexional decay inflexional survival initial stress-shift initial truncation insert instances Latin light lyric metrical metrists mid line Milton modern monosyllabic monosyllables norm normal occur omitted partial contraction poems poet poetry preceding prepositional prepositional emphasis pronounced pronunciation prosodist prosody punctuation pause quasi-accent quoted recurrency resolution rhythm rime rime royal rule scanned scansion second syllable secondary accent Shakespeare shews six-stress Skeat slant-mark spelling stanza stress verse stress-shift stress-shift by attraction stressed place Tale thee theory third thou throw-back Troilus and Criseyde unstressed syllables verb versification vowel vowel sound word word-break y sound