The attentive reader will now be able to fix the prosodical value of the line quoted above with unerring security.
But it proves none the less useful in another direction: in simply naming a particular foot it shows at the same time its prosodical measure and character, as will now be explained in detail.
But, by naming them all, we avoid the difficulty of selecting the most important; and it is proper that the student should know the import of all these prosodical terms.
Scholars have wondered what was "new" about this, and the answer is that it was not new in English poetry, but in English prosodical criticism it was new, for it was a departure from Bysshe.
If instruction was desired upon any sphere of human knowledge or energy, the bard produced it in a prosodical shape, combining with the dignity of form the aid which the memory borrowed from a pattern or a song.
So, to come down to our own day, Ibsen, who drove poetry out of the living language of his country, had been one of the most skilful of prosodical proficients.
It was an attempt to create, in defiance of the public, in contemptuous disregard of established 'literary opinion', a sort of prosodical chapel or school of poetry.
It was an attempt to create, in defiance of the public, in contemptuous disregard of established "literary opinion," a sort of prosodical chapel or school of poetry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prosodical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
