they either admit two unaccented syllables between the accents, or suggest "slur" or synalœpha or "elision" ("man-yan"), this last especially taking place with the definite article "the" ("th'"). But this last process need not be insisted on by accentualists, though it must by the next class we shall come to.
It is common, if not universal, for accentual prosodists to hold that two accents must not come together, so that they are troubled by that double line of Milton's where the ending and beginning run—
Bòth stòod
Bòth tùrned,
They admit occasional "inversion of accent" (trochaic substitution)—especially at the opening of a verse,—as in the line which Milton begins with
Màker;
but, when they hold fast to their principles, dislike it much in other cases, as, for instance, in
fàlls to | the gròund.
And they complain when the accent which they think necessary falls, as they call it, on one of two weak syllables, as in
And when. |