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Historical Manual of English Prosody

Note 149 — Chapter II · FROM BYSSHE TO GUEST

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Perhaps it should be said that a "section" is a bundle of "accented" and "unaccented" syllables extending in possible bulk from three syllables with two accents (Guest's minimum) to eleven syllables with three accents. Of a pair of these, similar or dissimilar, a verse consists.

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