Venus (Aphrodite) is the hottest planet despite being considerably farther from the sun than Mercury, orbiting the sun at a distance of 67 million miles. It is the nearest planet to Earth and is the brightest in the sky, in part because of its closeness but also because its methane-rich,...
In general, a sequence of two unstressed syllables takes about the same time to pronounce as a single stressed symbol. So, meters based on feet of three syllables in which two are unstressed should yield an impression of greater speed than those based on feet of two syllables in which at ...