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The Foundations and Nature of Verse / Cary F. Jacob.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacob, Cary F., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhythm.
- Versification.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1918]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Studies verse from many different angles such as, noise, tone quality, pitch, rhythm, time, and accent.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Contents
- Chapter I. Introduction
- Chapter II. Noise and Tone
- Chapter III. Pitch
- Chapter IV. Tone Quality
- Chapter V. The Quality of Vowel Sounds
- Chapter VI. Intensity
- Chapter VII. Genetic Aspects of Rhythm
- Chapter VIII. Time
- Chapter IX. Rhythm Defined
- Chapter X. Duration
- Chapter XI. Accent
- Chapter XII. The Phrase: Its Nature and Its Length
- Chapter XIII. Rhyme and the Line: Their Relation to the Phrase
- Chapter XIV. The Structure of the Foot: Accent, Duration, and Pitch in the General Process of Time Synthesis
- Chapter XV. The Content of the Phrase
- Chapter XVI. The Rhythm of Prose
- Chapter XVII. Scansion
- Chapter XVIII. Summary
- Appendix
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-231-89397-3
- OCLC:
- 1100459029
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