Word: feet
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better or worse, certainly altogether different from any in English poetry. Now even in languages where such feet are found, most English readers very rarely render them in reading, so that comparatively few persons are really aware of the difference between the two forms of poetry. But in most of the accompanied parts of the play the music is set to the Latin measure and this makes it necessary for the speaker to follow that measure as it existed in Latin. And thus we may get approximately, at any rate, the effect of ancient classic verse. Thus the play becomes...
...syllables. This is the forest primeval, etc., is not dactylic in any real sense, nor is Twinkle, twinkle, little star trochaic. In fact, we could hardly write trochees or dactyls at all in English, certainly not so that one would recognize them as such without being told. Two-syllable feet are Pyrrhics and three-syllabled are Tribrachs. Feet in which one syllable is short and another long are unknown in English, and the effect produced by them in languages where they exist is, whether
...work will be commenced next week. The museum, which will be as nearly fire-proof as possible, will be constructed of buff Indiana limestone and the style of architecture is an adaptation of the classic. It will be two stories in height and will have a front of 115 feet and a depth of about 114 feet. The building will be divided into two main sections; the front of the building, which will be subdivided into smaller rooms and the rear, which will be a semi-circular lecture hall with a seating capacity of about seven hundred. Entrance to this...
...Putnam '96, was left alone in the spring-board leaping. Without a single failure he cleared the bar till it reached eight feet five inches, one inch better than the old record. He did not try higher than this...
President Low has presented to Columbia College a set of eighteen volumes of photographs and plans of German universities. Each volume is about four feet square and is said to have cost $5,000. The German government exhibited the books at the Word's Fair...