Some of them have long been bones of contention among prosodists; some of them are almost self-explanatory, others are subtle and difficult (and must be felt rather than explained), others have perhaps only their unusualness to recommend them to one's attention. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
In English verse also the syllable has sometimes been regarded as the unit, but for the most part only by a few poets and prosodists of the late sixteenth, the seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
Professional prosodists doubt and dispute one another with the zeal and confidence of metaphysicians and editors of classical texts. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line. ❋ Unknown (1911)
But in truth the task of inventing an adequate system for notating the rhythm of prose, and securing a working agreement among prosodists as to a proper terminology, is almost insuperable. ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)
But can the ear really measure the intervals with any approximation to certainty, so that prosodists, for instance, can agree that a given poem is written in a definite metre? ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)
The danger is that the lover of poetry, wearied by the quarrels of prosodists, and forgetting the necessity of patience, compromise and freedom from dogmatism, will lose his curiosity about the infinite variety of metrical effects. ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)
Thomson, Dabney and other prosodists have followed Lanier's general theory, without always agreeing with him as to whether blank verse is written in 3/8 or 2/4 time. ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)
_iambic trimeter_ in Greek consists of three dipodies or six iambs; as used by English prosodists it consists of three iambs. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
a moment with the undignified welter of undigested and ex parte theories which academic prosodists have tried for three hundred years to foist upon English verse, and it will be seen that the simple Japanese rule has the merit of dignity. ❋ John Gould Fletcher (1918)
The work, as a whole, is a fine testimony to his lack of pedantry, to his catholicity of taste, to his sturdy common sense, and it exhibits a virtue rare among prosodists (dare we say among scholars generally?) -- courtesy to opponents. " ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
