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Examples
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You can hear Yeats's riff on Mangan's three-stress theme in phrases like "bee-loud glade" and "deep heart's core."
Putting Sweet Sounds Together Wes Davis 2011
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A few metrical notes: RISE OH LORD is to be read as a three-stress line; likewise: de-LIV-er ME, my GOD.
Fresh Bilge 2009
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Was walking on the sand "is alternating four-stress and three-stress iambic, rhyming _ab cb_.
A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907
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