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On the Basis of English Iambic Pentameter
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An analytic study of sonnets in Zulu
… "sonnet" as espoused by various linguists; iambic pentameter and the rhyme scheme. In chapter three we firstly defined the major characteristics of sonnets. These major structural features of a sonnet are clearly depicted in Kreuzer's (1955:224) definition of a sonnet, that a sonnet is: a …
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Misreading English meter : 1400-1514
… I also argue that Chaucer did not write in iambic pentameter, as is generally assumed, but in a “footless” decasyllabic line modeled on the Italian endecasillibo. Chapter Four explores metrical reception; by probing scribal responses to Chaucer’s meter we can gain insight into how …