It is probable that the first dipody had the strongest accent, the second a weaker accent, and the third the weakest of all. |
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If a trochee is used in the first place of a dipody, the iambic movement of the verse is not seriously impeded. |
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This caesura is sometimes deterred, so as to follow a short syllable at the beginning of the next dipody. |
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The lost syllable of each dipody may be doubtful, which explains why the last foot of each dipody may be a spondee. |
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Hardy's first version of the first line of the last poem made the dipody clearer. |
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Throughout the West-Indoeuropean world, in Ireland, Gaul, and Italy, the universal appeal to the indigenous sense of rhythm is in the form of the tripudic dipody, whether in stichic, distich, or tetrastich form. |
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