A Study of VersificationHoughton Mifflin, 1911 - 275 Seiten |
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... speech of John Bright's delivered during the Crimean war , he said that " the angel of death has been abroad through the land : we may almost hear the beating of his wings . " It would be easy to adduce other examples from the orations ...
... speech of John Bright's delivered during the Crimean war , he said that " the angel of death has been abroad through the land : we may almost hear the beating of his wings . " It would be easy to adduce other examples from the orations ...
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... speech is so accentual that we find it almost impossible to give exactly equal emphasis to two syllables in the same foot ; and we are therefore deprived of the use of the spondee , made up of two longs , a foot which was most useful in ...
... speech is so accentual that we find it almost impossible to give exactly equal emphasis to two syllables in the same foot ; and we are therefore deprived of the use of the spondee , made up of two longs , a foot which was most useful in ...
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... speech runs into iambic form more frequently than into any other kind of verse . " Probably nine tenths of English poetry is iam- bic ; this is the basis of the blank verse of Shakspere's plays and of Milton's epic , of most ballads old ...
... speech runs into iambic form more frequently than into any other kind of verse . " Probably nine tenths of English poetry is iam- bic ; this is the basis of the blank verse of Shakspere's plays and of Milton's epic , of most ballads old ...
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... speech . Our unfortunate spelling is continually sug- gesting to us that it is our duty to strive for an ex- actness of articulation which we none of us attain and which indeed we could hardly achieve without an absurd over - insistence ...
... speech . Our unfortunate spelling is continually sug- gesting to us that it is our duty to strive for an ex- actness of articulation which we none of us attain and which indeed we could hardly achieve without an absurd over - insistence ...
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... speech , a sound which , whatever it is , is certainly not identical with the e in let . In the same poem Browning under- takes to rime scaffold with baffled : - Shall I be alive that morning the scaffold Is broken away , and the long ...
... speech , a sound which , whatever it is , is certainly not identical with the e in let . In the same poem Browning under- takes to rime scaffold with baffled : - Shall I be alive that morning the scaffold Is broken away , and the long ...
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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 composed consonants dactylic declared delight double rimes Dryden effect employed English poetry English verse example feel final line fixed form foot four lines hearer heart heptameter heroic couplet hexameter iambic pentameter iambs iambus kiss language less long syllables Longfellow's Lowell lyric lyrist mate melody meter metrical metrist Milton never nursery-rimes o'er once pair of rimes passage pause play poem poet poet's poetic license Pope prose quatrain refrain repetition rhythm rhythmic rime-scheme rondeau Rose Shakspere Shakspere's short syllable single rime sometimes song sonnet sound speech spondee stanza substitution sweet Swinburne Swinburne's technic Tennyson thee theme Théodore de Banville thou thought tion trimeter triolet trochaic trochee true tune unrimed versification villanelle vowel vowel-sound wind words write
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Seite 100 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we — Of many far wiser than we — And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE : For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE...
Seite 113 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Seite 46 - Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town? ' Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Seite 238 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse...
Seite 203 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Seite 73 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 85 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Seite 133 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Seite 100 - But our thoughts they were palsied and sere Our memories were treacherous and sere For we knew not the month was October, And we marked not the night of the year (Ah, night of all nights in the year!) We noted not the dim lake of Auber (Though once we had journeyed down here) Remembered not the dank tarn of Auber, Nor the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Seite 187 - Birch-Tree ! Growing by the rushing river, Tall and stately in the valley ! I a light canoe will build me, Build a swift Cheemaun for sailing, That shall float upon the river, Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily ! " Lay aside your cloak, O Birch-Tree ! Lay aside your white-skin wrapper, For the Summer-time is coming, And the sun is warm in heaven, And you need no white-skin wrapper...