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There is certainly no fixed inner rhythmic accent in these lines. The fact seems to be that the 9-syllable line is too long to be uttered comfortably in one phrase, or breath-group, and it is too short to be regularly divided into parts by cesura.

B. VERSE WITH TERNARY MOVEMENT

Verse with regular ternary movement may occur in lines of any length, but it is commonly found only in lines of ten, eleven or twelve syllables. Many ternary lines of five and six syllables are found, but they are almost invariably mingled with binary lines. This rondel antiguo (Nebrija, quoted by Men. Pel., Ant. V. 66) is ternary throughout, it would seem:

Despide plazer

y pone tristura;

crece en querer

vuestra hermosura.

For mixed movements, see the serranilla on p. 45, l. 9 f.

In lines with regular ternary movement, properly speaking, every primary stress receives a rhythmic accent, and these accents are always separated by two atonic syllables, as in: