Unlocking the Secret Pulse of Poetry: How Rhythm and Meter Transform Words into Magic
However, working with breves and slashes on a computer in this manner is tedious and time consuming. Fortunately, there are some other methods available to us.
Some dictionaries include pronunciation guides, which indicate stressed and unstressed syllables. Dictionaries often use quotation marks for stressed syllables and apostrophes for unstressed syllables: PO”e’try’. This isn’t easy on the eyes. Another option, which is much clearer, is to use all caps for stressed syllables and all lowercase letters for unstressed syllables: POetry; and we can add hyphens to further denote each syllable: PO-e-try. Ah, that’s more like it: easy to read and easy to type.
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