"My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure."
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A Study in English Metrics Alfred Knopf New York 1918.
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Adelaide Crapsey
Adelaide Crapsey (9 September 1878 – 8 October 1914) was an American poet. In the years before her death, she wrote much of the verse on which her reputation rests. Her interest in rhythm and meter led her to create a variation on the cinquain (or quintain), a five-line form of twenty-two syllables influenced by the Japanese haiku and tanka. Her cinquain has a generally iambic meter and consists of two syllables in the first and last lines and four, six and eight syllables in the middle three li
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