From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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I am reading the latest Perloff & in some of the essays she uses a
system that allows for heavy, medium, low & no stress, so catches a bit
more of the range in verse.
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Isn't this just the old Trager/Smith system, of four degrees of stress,
going back to the fifties, Doug?
There were reasons (I think) why it never really took off, and I doubt
whether it can be resurrected fifty years on.
But I don't know the Perloff book, so there may be more to it.
Robin
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