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My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.

Adelaide Crapsey

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Adelaide Crapsey
Age: 36 †
Born: 1878
Born: September 9
Died: 1914
Died: October 8
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
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Metrical
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