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Updated: May 4, 2025
The point to be remembered is this: that neither the "timing" instinct nor the "stressing" instinct excludes the other, although in most individuals one or the other predominates. Musicians, for instance, are apt to be noticeable "timers," while many scholars who deal habitually with words in their varied shifts of meaning, are professionally inclined to be "stressers." The Measurement of Rhythm
Natural "stressers" may prefer to call iambic and anapestic units "rising" feet, to indicate the ascent of stress as one passes from the weaker to the stronger syllables; and similarly, to call trochaic and dactylic units "falling" feet, to indicate the descent or decline of stress as the weaker syllable or syllables succeed the stronger.
Others of us are natural "stressers," in that we pay primary attention to the "weight" of words, the relative loudness or pitch, by which their meaning or importance is indicated, and it is only secondarily that we think of these weighted or "stressed" words as separated from one another by approximately equal intervals of time.
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