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If one looks, in terms of poetry, at the nearest one can get to being
neutral, i.e. prosody, there one finds, in terms of English language poetry,
a toolshed of various objects, the imported language of the Renaissance
scholars can be used, so we can talk about iambs and dactyls and all their
brethren plus as well the recherché refinements of anacrusis and catalexis
and so forth. [Dave B]
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In *No Island is an Island*, Carlo Ginzburg discusses Elizabethan attitudes
to 'rhyme' as a debate on national identity, I believe.
Not quite the point you were making - but related. And, perhaps, of
interest.
CW
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