Glad to see you don’t read “STILL house” etc, Janet.
Posting sound files would get us nowhere, Jerry. We’d just be arguing about whether the scansions were an accurate mapping of the stress — which they wouldn’t be.
If others think suppressing the speech stress on a main, imperative verb like TELL in “TELL them I CAME...” or on other main content words in a line is a natural reading, I’m content that we agree to differ. I wish I hadn’t put any time and energy into this fruitless argument, and I’m certainly not going to put in any more.
Henry
[This message has been edited by Henry Quince (edited August 21, 2005).]
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