French prosody counts every syllable as a foot, and a line is made up of so many counted feet.
The important gift which the lü-shih brought to Chinese prosody was its insistence on tone.
Chinese prosody is a very difficult thing for an Occidental to understand.
Liberties are taken with prosody in this as in other poetical epitaphs.
Faults of prosody are very common in the poetical inscriptions, and prose and verse are sometimes singularly intermixed.
As it was, he could set the noses of his pupils to the grindstone of syntax and prosody with a clear conscience.
It was a life of freedom and terror, of prosody and rebellion, of interminable floggings and appalling practical jokes.
Every time I look into a book of poetry, I must of course think of prosody, and prosody suggests semisopitus, and brings before me, on the instant, the scene of my disgrace.
In fact, of all matters, prosody was most assiduously whipped into us.
Prosody primarily signified punctuation; and as the name implies, related to stopping by the way.
The prosodyof verse will show how many syllables the poets make: as, "Thou diedst, a most rare boy, of melancholy!
It cannot be otherwise, in regard that the French prosody differs from that of every other country in Europe.
The Prosody of this work is fresh from the mint; the author's old grammar of 1821, which is the nucleus of this, being "confined to Etymology and Syantax.
Orthography treats of Letters, Etymology of Words, Syntax of Sentences, andProsody of Versification.
They studied criticism, grammar, prosodyand metre, antiquities and mythology.
The word is used literally in biology; and metaphorically in prosody or grammar for a verse or sentence with a beginning wanting.
An accurate acquaintance with the Prosody and Metres of the Greek language is a necessary accompaniment of true scholarship; but one great want is felt in its successful cultivation.
It may be pure convention; it may have no inherent beauty; all that we have a right to ask of any prosody is, that it shall lay down a pattern for the writer, and that what it lays down shall be neither too easy nor too hard.
To an English eye and ear which have been trained to classical prosody the trochaic rhythm of, for instance, the Pastourelle quoted on p.
Not merely have the glossary, the grammar, the prosody of the language been enriched, but entirely new moulds in which literary work can be cast have been added to the literature.
The same may be said of some at least of the reforms of Malherbe in prosody and the minutiae of poetical art.
The bad prosody of this verse is discussed in the Introduction.
A knowledge of English prosody will hinder rather than help the student; for the Spanish poet obeys very different laws from those which govern the writer of English verse.
The "Rules For making English Verse," which is the most important part of Bysshe's work, is the first attempt to treat English prosody in a systematic and comprehensive way.
Clearly, a prosody which applied to one system could not apply to the other, and to suppose that it did was Bysshe's sole but disastrous mistake.
This is highly important because it shows that although the nomina basis of his prosody is both accentual and syllabic, the latter element is really its defining principle.
In a syllabic prosody it is clearly necessary to determine the number of syllables in a word whenever that is doubtful and also, if convenient, to provide ways of regulating that number by syncope and elision.
Allah being in a complaisant mood, it followed that not long after, walking in the bazaar, Al-Khalil invented prosody as he passed a coppersmith's and heard him hammering a basin.
That a falling apple should lead Sir Isaac Newton's thoughts to the problem of gravity is not so remarkable, but that the laws of prosody should result from an equally capricious occurrence strikes one as odd.
Some writers on prosody treat practically every line of ten syllables as having a cesural pause, and certainly some slight phrase-pause may almost always be found.
Professor Moulton has remarked interestingly that Browning gives the unique figure of Caliban not only a grammar but a prosody of his own.
And again: "Every argument you bring convinces me more and more that the theory of our prosody depending on accent is false, and that it really is very nearly identical with the Greek.
But a very superficial examination of Chaucer's verse soon shews that he continually sets aside the rigid rule of the Old French prosody that regulated the position of the medial pause.
The structure of English versification has been much obscured by the use of classical terms in senses for which they are ill-adapted, and by artificial and wooden systems of prosody which obscure the natural pronunciation of sentences.
What study I have given to theprosody of the Nahuatl tongue leads me to doubt the correctness of so sweeping a statement.
Historians arrange the process of borrowing from the French and adjusting prosody to the loans in, roughly speaking, three stages.
On the other hand, some of the new Teutonic tongues which were thus brought into contact with Latin, and with which Latin was brought into contact, had systems of prosody of their own, based on entirely different principles.
It has been said elsewhere that the shaping of a prosody suitable for lyric was the great debt which Europe owes to the language of Provence.
The developments, typical and special, of English prosody in the nineteenth century cannot be quite the same as those of Greek two thousand years ago, or of French to-day.
Meanwhile the real prosody of English had been elaborated, in the usual blending fashion of the race, by an intricate, yet, as it happens, an easily traceable series of compromises and naturalisations.
Even as a grammarian he performed an important service to the literary language of Rome, by fixing its prosody and arresting the tendency to decay in its final syllables.
The technical study of prosody was instituted by Khalil ibn i Ahmad i Bicri.
The taste of the Renaissance was offended by all deviations from classical prosody and Latinity.
Prosody treats of Pronunciation with respect of Accent, Time, and Quantity.
The hide-bound, antiquated conception of English prosody is responsible for a great deal of dead timber.
Visions of possible anglers and unchaperoned river flirtations disturbed his mind; but eventually he satisfied himself, by requiring Miss Prosody to be always of the party, who followed with the children and a boatman in a flat-bottomed tub.
Miss Prosody was looking for a book in a recess behind the door, close to them; but they never saw her till she moved away, and I heard Bertie mutter something about an 'inquisitive old devil.
Actually Miss Prosodygave me a dictionary; horrid of her, wasn't it?
I walked with the children and Miss Prosody in the Queen's Park," said the latter, rather dolefully.
Miss Prosody was taking a peaceful afternoon snooze; and if she did hear the scampering about the house, they were not unaccustomed sounds on a wet day.
Previous European statements about Chinese prosody should be accepted with great caution.
Chinese prosody distinguishes between two tones, a "flat" and a "deflected.
He represents a reaction against the formal prosody of his immediate predecessors.
The essential difference between the two was the care, not only in his prosody but also in his declamation, which Grétry tried to reproduce musically with all possible exactness.
The most serious, but the most excusable, is his contempt for prosody and his indifference to the verse entrusted to him.
Leaving aside the bad prosody and the minor defects in taste, we have left a work which shows a wealth of invention, melody, and sparkling fancy comparable to Grétry's.
