Different sorts of stresses and their superposition.  A lot on one line in Paradise Lost: "Is this the region, this the soil, the clime...?"  And a bit on one line in Yeats: "Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose."  And then the opening line of Paradise Lost: the stress in the word "first," the countervailing stress on the word "disobedience."

Different sorts of stresses and their superposition. A lot on one line in Paradise Lost: "Is this the region, this the soil, the clime...?" And a bit on one line in Yeats: "Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose." And then the opening line of Paradise Lost: the stress in the word "first," the countervailing stress on the word "disobedience."

Different sorts of stresses and their superposition.&nbsp; A lot on one line in&nbsp;Paradise Lost: "Is this the region, this the soil, the clime...?"&nbsp; And a bit on one line in Yeats: "Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose."&nbsp; And then the opening line of&nbsp;Paradise Lost: the stress in the&nbsp;word "first," the countervailing stress on the&nbsp;word "disobedience."

Different sorts of stresses (Episode 9)

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