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Are there suggested cases that Latin poets deliberately sometimes used stress (accent) to induce certain effect?
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Andrew S. Becker's article Rhythm in a Sinuous Stanza: The Anatomy and Acoustic Contour of the Latin Alcaic provides an interesting take on the ...
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