It is called feminine when it follows an unaccented syllable.
Schipper gives a separate paragraph also to "unaccented rime," where the similarity of sound belongs wholly to final, unstressed syllables.
The dissyllabic foot is commonly called an iambus (or iamb) if the unaccented syllable precedes the accented, and a trochee if the accented precedes the unaccented.
The trisyllabic foot is commonly called an anapest if the two unaccented syllables precede the accented syllable, and a dactyl if they follow the accented syllable.
The unaccented parts of the line vary in both the number and length of the syllables.
In certain cases, unaccented syllables even show a tendency to length beyond that of those bearing the stress, as in words like follow, dying, and others where the final sound is easily prolonged.
The various conditions of unaccented beginnings in Nos.
Hence the significant rule, that a melodic member may begin at any part of a measure, upon an accented or an unaccented beat, or upon any fraction of a beat.
Examine, also, all the preceding examples, and note the different accented or unaccented locations of the first tone, in each figure and motive.
In duple rhythm the accent is followed by one unaccented or lighter beat, so that regular alternation of heavy and light pulses prevails incessantly.
The cadence-chord occupies the unaccented (2d) beat, and is no longer than any other chord in the phrase.
It is necessary to remember that every unaccented final e at the end of a line is to be sounded, and constitutes a syllable.
In such a case, some scribes write werkis for werkes, to make the rime more complete, but it is quite needless, as there is no necessity for an absolute coincidence of vowel-sound in a mere unaccented syllable.
Even unaccented o can be elided; in fact, it is very common in the case of the word to; so that the scribes often write tabyde for to abyde, and the like.
Nor one rest represent an unaccented and an accented beat (see c, Fig.
It may be as well to warn such an one, however, that it is not nowadays customary to dot an unaccented note or rest.
Another indication is the tying of an unaccented note to an accented one, thus obliterating the accent if the tie be observed literally (instances occur in Chopin's Valse, Op.
It is a mistake to suppose that the disappearance of final unaccented e from many words or its instability in many others made it difficult for Lydgate and his fellows to write melodious verse.
The value of [e] when Mr. Jones first substituted it for a disguisedunaccented vowel, was that the speaker might know what sound he had to produce.
The necessity of observing vowel distinctions in unaccented syllables, [e.
Very frequently the metrical accent does not coincide with the syllabic accent: the musical accent will fall on an unaccented syllable, or vice versa.
Each line has five feet, and each foot contains one accented syllable plus either one or two unaccented syllables.
Of the diphthongs, ai and oi both sank to ei, and with original ei further to i, inunaccented syllables, as in Achivi from Gr.
The changes of the short vowels and of the diphthongs in unaccented syllables are too numerous and complex to be set forth here.
Magyar is pronounced Modyor, the unaccented a in Magyar being the equivalent, or nearly so, of our o.
Three rhythmic elements made up this natural mode of Latin versification: the succession of accented and unaccented syllables; the number of syllables in a line; and that regularly recurring sameness of sound which is called rhyme.
For this regularity seems to follow upon the acceptance of the principle that in rhythmic verse an accented syllable is not equal to two unaccented ones.
Accent having driven quantity from speech, came to supersede it in verse, with the accented syllable taking the place of the long syllable and the unaccented the place of the short.
They must not be confounded with female lines with two extra syllables (see on 1 above) or with other lines in which two extra unaccented syllables may occur.
In disobedient there is an extra unaccented syllable.
An extra unaccented syllable may occur in any part of the line; as in line 7 of the prologue, where the second syllable of piteous is superfluous.
In the illustration above, all very obscure sounds have been replaced by the apostrophe, while no distinction has been made between short vowels in accented and unaccented syllables.
This foot, consisting of one accented syllable, followed by two unaccented syllables, is called a dactyl.
Every verse, with the exception of the last, is made up of two half-verses each containing three accented syllables and separated by a ringing caesura, that is, a caesura on an unaccented syllable.
The rhythmical system is dependent, not upon measure, but upon accent, with considerable freedom in the addition or suppression of unaccented syllables.
For the sake of convenience the accented syllables are indicated thus: , and the unaccented syllables thus: U.
The regular recurrence of accented and unaccented syllables produces a harmony which appeals to our aesthetic sense and thus enhances for us the beauty of poetry.
A group of accented and unaccented syllables is called a foot.
Rhythm in poetry consists of the recurrence of accented andunaccented syllables in regular succession.
Mark the accented and unaccented syllables in the following selections, and name the kind of verse:-- 1.
The metrical effect of the preceding selections is produced by the regular recurrence of accented and unaccented syllables.
The tendency to drop consonant sounds, and to pronounce indistinctly or incorrectly the vowel sounds ofunaccented syllables, should be carefully guarded against.
Unaccented final -e is treated as in Chaucer, having its full value in the verse when it represents an inflexion or final vowel in Old English or Old French, e.
The inflexions are very much simplified as compared with those of the Kentish Ayenbyte (III), but the verse shows that final unaccented -e was better preserved in the original than in our late MS.
Unaccented ĭpsum is probably one source of the neuter sǫ: cf.
About these things, their workmanship, the histories of their times, he told her in his easy, unaccented voice, glancing sideways at her from time to time to note how she stood it.
After that there was an interim of the usual dull, unaccented civilian monotony, mitigated at rare intervals by this dun-coloured ebb and flow from Plattsburg.
In the unaccented termination re, the r is sounded after the e; as in fibre, centre.
