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Strict Stress-Meter in English Poetry Compared with German and Russian

 

This book investigates a verse form never befor identified by Western Scholars: the strict stress-meter. The main object of research, the English strict stress-meter, is typologically compared with its German and Russian counterparts. Actual strict stress-meter verse is compared to its "prose models" to find out where the poets followed their "language givens" and where they deviated from ordinary speech tendency. The conclusions are based on massive analyses of thousands of verse lines.



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