“Of” in Paradise Lost as evidence for the metrical line
In this paper I discuss the distribution of grammatical monosyllables in the iambic pentameter line. I show that in Milton's Paradise Lost, the word OF appears with greater than expected frequency at the beginning of the line; 27% of all instances of OF are in the first of the ten metrical posi...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Bologna
2019-09-01
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| Series: | Umanistica Digitale |
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| Online Access: | https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/8615 |