Bridges argues that Milton excluded the 'licence' of recession of accent because it would have given rise to uncertainty about where a stress should lie. He observes that the words "complete, extreme, serene," and "sublime" occur twenty-four times in "Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained," and "Samson Agonistes," and in each case the accent is on the second syllable, whereas each of these words appears only once in "Comus" and there 'suffers' recession of accent. In this final section, Bridges describes a prosody of accentual verse. Bridges classifies the following types of syllable (alternative symbols have been added for browsers that do not display symbols correctly): Bridges also has a shorter version of the 'Light' symbol for 'very short' syllables. We can use ⌵ ('.'). Bridges lists six "rules" for accentual verse. He states (p. 89) "These 'laws' are merely the tabulation of what my ear finds in English stressed or accentual verse". The rules are as follows:  Bridges lists the common "stress units" or "feet":