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Updated: June 14, 2025

There is, it is claimed, an equality of duration between one line and another, and between one foot in a line and another; these larger and lesser stretches of duration being divided up between syllables and pauses, each syllable and pause occupying a fixed quantity of time; just as in music each bar is divided up between notes and rests of definite value. Once up | on a | mid-night | drear-y;

Dewitt H. Parker - The Principles of Aesthetics