Weak Position (poetry)
In the analysis of poetic meter, weak position is either of two things:
- In classical Greek and Latin scholarship, a short vowel is in "weak position" if the surrounding consonants would have permitted the syllable containing it to be pronounced either long or short.
- A syllable is in "weak position" if it is expected to be unstressed based on its metrical context.
Read more about Weak Position (poetry): Vowels in Weak Position, Syllables in Weak Position
Famous quotes containing the words weak and/or position:
“Power corrupts ... when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before. The will to power ... far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“Heaven gives its glimpses only to those
Not in position to look too close.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)