prosodies

Scandinavian prosodies made it a determining principle; and in the north of England it survived well into the fifteenth century; but since then it has been considered a too 'easy' kind of metrical ornament, one to be used sparingly and only for very special effects.

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

As wide as are the possibilities of variety in native English verse, the poets have endeavored to extend its boundaries by the annexation of foreign prosodies from ancient Greece and Rome and from mediaeval

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

Versification is transformed in the same proportion; here again the two prosodies arrive at a compromise.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Layamon in the thirteenth century mingled both prosodies in his "Brut," sometimes using alliteration, sometimes rhyme, and occasionally both at once.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

In some prosodies -- as the French and Italian, for example -- the standard unit of verse is the syllable.

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

In fact, it is from this habitual interplay of the three elements that most of the complexity of metre arises; as it is the failure to recognize this substitution which has given the older prosodies much of their false simplicity and their mechanical barrenness.

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

All such prosodies tend rather to the childish, as when, for instance, the _pastorela_, or shepherdess poem in general, was divided into _porquiera_, _cabreira_, _auqueira_, and other things, according as the damsel's special wards were pigs or goats or geese.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

Poetry commands such a diversity of prosodies, of rhymes, of rhythms, such an abundance of assonances from these rich and varied materials, that it is almost possible to follow MUSICALLY the feelings and scenes which it depicts, not only in mere expressions in which the sound repeats the sense, but also in long declamations.

Life of Chopin Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 1877

Poetry commands such a diversity of prosodies, of rhymes, of rhythms, such an abundance of assonances from these rich and varied materials, that it is almost possible to follow MUSICALLY the feelings and scenes which it depicts, not only in mere expressions in which the sound repeats the sense, but also in long declamations.

Life of Chopin Franz Liszt 1848

They are books in verse, according to the ancient rules of versifying, though not according to the Greek and Latin prosodies.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721