The Stylistic Development of Keats by Bate Walter Jackson

Author:Bate, Walter Jackson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-134-93564-2
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

But it usually occurs only in unstressed syllables:

Indeed, the number of lines which contain vowel-gaping reveals, once again, the gradual decrease of its use.26

More, even, than in Hyperion, Keats continued in the Eve of St. Agnes to display an increasing adherence to the theoretical scansion of the line. With the example of Milton before him, he had reverted a bit in Hyperion, as we have seen, to the trisyllabic foot (2.8%); this he diminished again in the Eve of St. Agnes to 2% (40).27 An actual trisyllabic foot—a foot, that is, which is hardly elidable by any conventional means—appears only once:

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