Crossword-Solution: PROSODISTS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Hence the Prosodists distinguish between Ajzá aslíyah or primary feet (from Asl, root), in which this precedence is observed, and Ájzá far’íyah or secondary feet (from Far’= branch), in which it is reversed.

Translated, as it were, into the language of the Prosodists it will be:— Mafá’ílun[FN#456] ’Mafá’ílun Fa’úlun, and this, standing by itself, might prima facie be taken for a line of the Hazaj (iii.

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? In one sense "yes." No one doubts that the _Odyssey_ is written in "dactylic hexameters," i.e., in lines made up of six "feet," each one of which is normally composed of a long syllable plus two short syllables, or of an acceptable equivalent for that particular combination.

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.

According to Lanier, the structure of English blank verse, for instance, is not an alternation of unstressed with stressed syllables, but a series of bars of 3/8 time, thus: [Illustration: Five bars of 3/8 time, each with a short and a long note.] 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.