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Historical Manual of English Prosody

Note 28 — Chapter V · RULES OF THE FOOT SYSTEM

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Rules 26 and 27 do not apply to unmetrical verse, such as the old alliterative couplet-line, or the rhythmed prose-verse of Ossian, Blake, and Whitman.

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