A Study of VersificationHoughton Mifflin, 1911 - 275 страница |
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... example , written by painters , by Reynolds or by La Farge , are full of technical criti- cism ; and so are the essays on poetry , written by the poets themselves . The processes of their art are con- sidered with unfailing zest by Pope ...
... example , written by painters , by Reynolds or by La Farge , are full of technical criti- cism ; and so are the essays on poetry , written by the poets themselves . The processes of their art are con- sidered with unfailing zest by Pope ...
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... rhythmic ; and so is the crooning of the mother over her babe in the cradle by her side . The chant of tri- umph has its rise and fall . In all these examples , the character of the rhythm may be open to question , RHYTHM.
... rhythmic ; and so is the crooning of the mother over her babe in the cradle by her side . The chant of tri- umph has its rise and fall . In all these examples , the character of the rhythm may be open to question , RHYTHM.
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... examples from the orations which are charged with sweeping emotion . Certain of the novelists have now and again ... example , is the concluding paragraph of " Nicholas Nickleby " : " The grass was green above the dead boy's grave ...
... examples from the orations which are charged with sweeping emotion . Certain of the novelists have now and again ... example , is the concluding paragraph of " Nicholas Nickleby " : " The grass was green above the dead boy's grave ...
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... examples of three short syllables in succession may be discovered by a diligent examination of the whole body of English poetry ; but they are very few . In fact , our speech is so accentual that we find it almost impossible to give ...
... examples of three short syllables in succession may be discovered by a diligent examination of the whole body of English poetry ; but they are very few . In fact , our speech is so accentual that we find it almost impossible to give ...
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... example , an iambic pentameter may have an added syllable at the end almost without our noting it , as in Shakspere's To be or not to be : that is the question . Or the final short syllable of a terminal trochee may be dropped without ...
... example , an iambic pentameter may have an added syllable at the end almost without our noting it , as in Shakspere's To be or not to be : that is the question . Or the final short syllable of a terminal trochee may be dropped without ...
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accepted alliteration anapestic artist asserted attention Austin Dobson ballade beauty blank verse breath Browning Browning's Byron's called charm chosen colliteration Complete Poetical composed consonants dactylic dead declared delight double rimes Dryden effect employed English poetry English verse example feel final fixed form foot four lines hearer heart heptameter heroic couplet hexameter iambic pentameter iambs iambus King language less long syllables Longfellow's Lowell lyric lyrist mate melody meter metrical metrist Milton never nursery-rimes o'er once pause play poem poet poet's poetic license Pope Pope's prose quatrain refrain repetition rhythm rhythmic rime rime-scheme rondeau rose Shakspere Shakspere's short syllable single rime sometimes song sonnet sound speech spondee stanza substitution sweet Swinburne technic Tennyson tetrameter thee theme Théodore de Banville thou thought tion trimeter triolet trochaic trochee true tune unrimed versification villanelle vowel vowel-sounds wind words write
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