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Page 51
... possible to stress them equally ( or , as some prosodists prefer to put it , to divide the stress between them ) : WORN OUT ; or to stress the second only : worn OUT ; but , notice , you can't do it the other way around : WORN out ...
... possible to stress them equally ( or , as some prosodists prefer to put it , to divide the stress between them ) : WORN OUT ; or to stress the second only : worn OUT ; but , notice , you can't do it the other way around : WORN out ...
Page 54
... possible ( as you begin to distinguish between secondary and primary stresses , long syllables and strong ones , etc. ) ; but too much refinement begins to defeat the usefulness of the analysis . I recommend what may . seem a roughshod ...
... possible ( as you begin to distinguish between secondary and primary stresses , long syllables and strong ones , etc. ) ; but too much refinement begins to defeat the usefulness of the analysis . I recommend what may . seem a roughshod ...
Page 173
... as I hate to say it , book publication almost requires a fairly established repu- tation and , if possible , influential friends . Nothing in the mails is quite so pathetic as a book - length poetry manuscript Poetry and The Market 173.
... as I hate to say it , book publication almost requires a fairly established repu- tation and , if possible , influential friends . Nothing in the mails is quite so pathetic as a book - length poetry manuscript Poetry and The Market 173.
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