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Prosody treats of the quantity of syllables, and the nature and arrangement of the various feet in the different kinds Of verse used by the Poets. The short syllable is considered a metrical unit, and is called a tempus (time) or mora. A long syllable is equivalent in time to two Short, and vice versa.
The quantity of syllables in which doubtful vowels occur, when not lengthened according to the rules afterwards stated, can be ascertained either by a knowledge of scansion, or from a good Lexicon, in which it is marked.
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