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Why did Latin poets make metre and word stress clash on purpose?
In Virgil's hexameter, the beat of the metre and the natural stress of the words were meant to disagree for most of the line, then agree at the end.
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In Virgil's hexameter, the beat of the metre and the natural stress of the words were meant to disagree for most of the line, then agree at the end.
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