(1) Metrical positions W S W S W S W S Actual rhythm Kog - DA ne v SHUT - ku za - ne - MOG when seriously [he] became ill Pushkin, Eugene Onegin, 2
(1) shows four sites of potential stress omission. No poets in the database omit stress on the last foot. However, they omit stress on non-final feet; omission on the penultimate foot is the most favoured type. Preferences for omission on first, first and third, second foot, etc., vary among poets. I organize attested omission types into frequency hierarchies, yielding 11 patterns.
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