Jiang says Dante can produce these different effects by intentionally controlling syllables and the balance of hard and soft consonants.
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"And, and you can do that by controlling the syllables, okay? Does that make sense? There are some hard syllables, and there's some, sorry,..."
"...in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way..."
"So, like, we can look at which syllables are stressed. Okay."
"So, like,. So, it's, like,. So, it's, like, every other syllable is stressed and unstressed.. So, I'm pretty sure, I need to check my..."
"...Italian, okay? Mathematics would also include syllabi. We can't do the syllables and the rhymes and all that, okay? So we can't do the..."
"...Iambic pentameter, you know, right? Iambis is just the arrangement of syllables where you have one that is deep and then another that's high...."
"...a lot easier for us to communicate if these ideograms represented syllables and sounds instead, okay? So, rather than representing ideas, let's get them..."
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