They don't race Shakespeare frantically, hoping he'll run out of syllables before they run out of breath; they don't use pitch and tempo to hide lines they don't understand or stress lines they do.
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Because of its consistent short lines marked with end-rhyme, these lines could conceivably be heard as 7-syllable groups by a listener; however, they would be more likely to be perceived as ( usually ) 3-stress lines.
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If the isolation and frustration of caring for our own infants and toddlers is so unnerving _ and our own experience and the hundreds of calls to the Parental Stress Line each week confirm that it is _ imagine the pressure on an unrelated teen-age girl.
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The verse of the Alliterative Revival broadly adheres to the same pattern shown in Old English poetry; a four-stress line, with a rhythmic pause ( or caesura ) in the middle, in which three of the stresses alliterate, i . e . " aa / ax ".
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If I've actually seen the parent strike the child I try to give them a card with the Parental Stress Line number on it _ you can get these from the Parental Stress Line office _ but always in an empathetic way, and always after commenting positively about their child.
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If I've actually seen the parent strike the child I try to give them a card with the Parental Stress Line number on it _ you can get these from the Parental Stress Line office _ but always in an empathetic way, and always after commenting positively about their child.
