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... given , ' where memory slept , ' nothing seems gained by suppressing the o in memory , though it is an instance where the choice lies open . Dramatists , not considering it incumbent on them to sup- port a stately regularity , are ...
... given , ' where memory slept , ' nothing seems gained by suppressing the o in memory , though it is an instance where the choice lies open . Dramatists , not considering it incumbent on them to sup- port a stately regularity , are ...
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... given previously , and note the difference in this re- spect ; compare it also with the extract from Tennyson . The line from the latter now— To his great heart none other than a god , receives no accent on such a capable word as ' than ...
... given previously , and note the difference in this re- spect ; compare it also with the extract from Tennyson . The line from the latter now— To his great heart none other than a god , receives no accent on such a capable word as ' than ...
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... given might just as legiti- mately be written in lengths , and then called stave or stanza ; distinction at this stage is but one to the eye at most , so it is deemed best to cite the most prominent forms here , where they can best be ...
... given might just as legiti- mately be written in lengths , and then called stave or stanza ; distinction at this stage is but one to the eye at most , so it is deemed best to cite the most prominent forms here , where they can best be ...
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... given , Then sighing , || to the deep his looks he cast . Five - foot quatrain . — The alternate variety of five feet has met with many and illustrious supporters ; but , as with the similar form of four feet , mostly in poems of no ...
... given , Then sighing , || to the deep his looks he cast . Five - foot quatrain . — The alternate variety of five feet has met with many and illustrious supporters ; but , as with the similar form of four feet , mostly in poems of no ...
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... given . As used by Chapman in his translation of the Iliad , this measure would seem obso- lete ; but so much depends on the handling that in Macaulay's ' Armada ' it seems as modern as any : - The king is come to marshal us in all his ...
... given . As used by Chapman in his translation of the Iliad , this measure would seem obso- lete ; but so much depends on the handling that in Macaulay's ' Armada ' it seems as modern as any : - The king is come to marshal us in all his ...
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accent alliteration alternate arrangement ballad beat beauty blank verse cadence called close consonant couplet crown verse dactyl effect enclitic English epic eyes fair fall Five-foot fixed cesura flowers four feet Four-foot free verse gentle Annie Greek hand hath heart heaven hexameter hover impart instance irregular kind King Arthur language length light longer LYTTON march metre measure melody metrical nature night NUT-BROWN MAID o'er occasionally odd syllable odd-over pause piece poem poet poetic poetry primus ab prose prosody Public School Latin quatrain Queen Mab quick foot rest rhyme rhythm rhythmic roundel rule School Latin Primer seems short sing sleep song sorrow soul sound spondaic stanza star stave strong beginning structure sweet tears Telamonian Ajax thee thou three feet tone triplet tripping metre trochee unrhymed variety versification voice vowel weep winds words
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Seite 105 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Seite 104 - My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Seite 108 - Now strike the golden lyre again: A louder yet, and yet a louder strain, Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark! the horrid sound Has raised up his head: As awaked from the dead, And amazed, he stares around. Revenge! revenge!
Seite 41 - Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone: She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity. 'Fie, fie, fie...
Seite 95 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...
Seite 107 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Seite 42 - SPAKE full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth. by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. Stars they are, wherein we read our history, As astrologers and seers of eld ; Yet not wrapped about with awful mystery, Like the burning stars, which they beheld.
Seite 102 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Seite 103 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung ; And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Seite 82 - Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore — Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; Tis the wind and nothing more.