The Metre of Macbeth Its Relation to Shakespeares Earlier And Later Work
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Those lines are now to be considered in which va- riety is secured by the substitution for the regular iambus of a trochee, or a monosyllabic foot, or a trisyllabic foot. A large number of feet are only apparently so "irregular" if indeed we should ever apply that Johnsonian word to our "iambic licentiate. " Mistakes in scansion are apt to spring from a failure to realize that many words 1 Compare forty-two in As You Like It and fifty-nine in Twelfth Night with 108 in Julius Caesar and 107 in M...easure for Measure. 2 Manly, p. Xxxiv. 3 This Table is based on Fleay's figures in Ingleby. The per cent, col- umn is my own. 34 THE METRE OF MACBETH in Shakespeare's day were not accented as they are now and that many others had not yet been frozen into a constant pronunciation. Thus we always say perseve'r- ance; Shakespeare always perseverance (see IV. 3. 93). Again our practice is to say unfe'lt ; Shakespeare accents either unfe'lt (Richard III. , 1. 4. 80) or icnfelt (Macbeth, II. 3. 142). Cf.
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