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 | Author | Message |  |  | | | Posted on Fri Apr 26, 2013 21:20:03 |  | 
 |  |  |  | Why is the u short? Shouldn't it be long, coming before 2 consonants? |  |  | 
 |  |  | | | Posted at Sun Apr 27, 2014 18:03:01 | Quote | 
 |  |  |  | I don't know why they put it short, but my teacher said that syllables at the end of a line can just be taken as long so that is how I am reading all of these lines so that it matches with hendecasyllic verse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendecasyllabic_verse |  |  | 
 |  |  | | | Posted at Wed Oct 26, 2016 04:27:43 | Quote | 
 |  |  |  | two subsequent consonants make U long. Long by placement, not nature. If someone scans that as short it still reads like a valid line of hendecasyllabics, but that scansion would still be incorrect. |  |  | 
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