About: Weak position (poetry)

An Entity of Type: Thing, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org:8891

In the analysis of poetic meter, weak position is either of two things: * In classical Greek and Latin scholarship, a short vowel is in "weak position" if the surrounding consonants would have permitted the syllable containing it to be pronounced either long or short. * A syllable is in "weak position" if it is expected to be unstressed based on its metrical context.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • In the analysis of poetic meter, weak position is either of two things: * In classical Greek and Latin scholarship, a short vowel is in "weak position" if the surrounding consonants would have permitted the syllable containing it to be pronounced either long or short. * A syllable is in "weak position" if it is expected to be unstressed based on its metrical context. (en)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 3164010 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 3705 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 899158941 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdfs:comment
  • In the analysis of poetic meter, weak position is either of two things: * In classical Greek and Latin scholarship, a short vowel is in "weak position" if the surrounding consonants would have permitted the syllable containing it to be pronounced either long or short. * A syllable is in "weak position" if it is expected to be unstressed based on its metrical context. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Weak position (poetry) (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License