English was hospitable to the French suggestion of rhyme, but did not seriously need it in its rhythmic economy. Hence rhyme has always been strictly subordinated to stress as a somewhat decorative feature and has been frequently dispensed with. It is no psychologic accident that rhyme came later into English than in French and is leaving it sooner. 13 Chinese verse has developed along very much the same lines as French verse. The syllable is an even more Note 12.
Quantitative distinctions exist as an objective fact.
They have not the same inner, psychological value that they had in Greek. Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore .