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My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.

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I know
Not these my hands
And yet I think there was
A woman like me once had hands
Like these.

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The old
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
Should weep?

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Listen.
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.

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These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow... the hour
Before the dawn... the mouth of one
Just dead.

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Adelaide Crapsey

Adelaide Crapsey

Born: September 9, 1878
Died: October 8, 1914 (aged 36)
Bio: Adelaide Crapsey was an American poet. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was raised in Rochester, New York, daughter of Adelaide T. Crapsey and Episcopal priest Algernon Sidney Crapsey, who had been transferred from New York City to Rochester.
Known for:
  1. A study in English metrics
  2. Verses

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