prosodists

Professional prosodists doubt and dispute one another with the zeal and confidence of metaphysicians and editors of classical texts.

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

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.

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

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.

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

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.

INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition) 1911

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.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

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.

A Study of Poetry 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?

A Study of Poetry 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.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

_iambic trimeter_ in Greek consists of three dipodies or six iambs; as used by English prosodists it consists of three iambs.

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

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.

Japanese Prints John Gould Fletcher 1918