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The metre of Yeats's 'Lake Isle of Innisfree' in context

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    Statement of Responsibility:
    Michael Cade-Stewart.
    Main Author:
    Cade-Stewart, Michael, kirjoittaja.

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    Format:
    Journal article
    Language:
    English
    In:
    RMN newsletter / published by: Folklore Studies, Dept. of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki. - ISSN 1799-4497. - Helsinki : University of Helsinki. - 11 (2015/2016), s. 32-49
    Subject persons:
    Yeats, William Butler.

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    This article argues that Yeats's "Lake Isle of Innis free" is to be scanned as isochronic, with the first three lines of a stanza having seven beats and a caesura after the 4th beat, here called 'Sevens' as opposed to fourteeners. The form is not mentioned in any history of English verse, but a digital search of ca.2,500,000 lines of poetry reveals it to be representative of a neglected but significant strand of English poetry..


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