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It remains as true of verse as it is of prose that the "literary" values of words their connotations or emotional overtones are too subtle to be indicated by any marks invented by a printer; but the alternation or succession of long or short syllables, of stressed or unstressed syllables, the nature of particular feet and lines and stanzas, the order and interlacing of rhymes, and even the devices of tone-color, are sufficiently external elements of verse to allow easy methods of indication.
Such an English word as withstand is merely an old sequence with stand, i.e., "against stand," in which the unstressed adverb was permanently drawn to the following verb and lost its independence as a significant element. But stress has done more than articulate or unify sequences that in their own right imply a syntactic relation.
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