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Title: The Principles of English Versification

Author: Paull Franklin Baum

Release Date: May 7, 2007 [EBook #21342]

Language: English

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THE PRINCIPLES OF ENGLISH VERSIFICATION

BY

PAULL FRANKLIN BAUM

[Illustration]

CAMBRIDGE

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

1924

LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

COPYRIGHT, 1922

BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

_Third printing_

PRINTED AT THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U. S. A.

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| Transcriber's note |
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| The following symbols have been used in the text: |
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| [~] a musical rest |
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| [U] an unstressed syllable |
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| [#] stressed syllable |
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| [`] grave accent over the preceding unstressed syllable |
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| [)x] x with breve |
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| [=x] x with macron |
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| ^{x} superscript x |
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| [OE] Latin capital ligature OE |
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