English Versification: A Complete Practical Guide to the Whole SubjectLongmans, Green, and Company, 1869 - 154 Seiten |
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... look for the genuine production , as we should for the king to the man wearing the crown . If so doing we are deceived , anger arises at the indi- vidual whose assumption of the symbol of royalty has misled us ; and so it is the world ...
... look for the genuine production , as we should for the king to the man wearing the crown . If so doing we are deceived , anger arises at the indi- vidual whose assumption of the symbol of royalty has misled us ; and so it is the world ...
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... look on as native , there is another , and rival , against which it has to make good its ground . This is the totally different base of quantity or prosody , on which the Greeks , closely imitated by the Latins , constructed the whole ...
... look on as native , there is another , and rival , against which it has to make good its ground . This is the totally different base of quantity or prosody , on which the Greeks , closely imitated by the Latins , constructed the whole ...
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... looks , Ever laughing for love || as she like would . And as she came by the banks || the boughs each one They louted to that lady , || and laid forth their branches . Blossoms and burgens || breathed full sweete , Flowers flourished in ...
... looks , Ever laughing for love || as she like would . And as she came by the banks || the boughs each one They louted to that lady , || and laid forth their branches . Blossoms and burgens || breathed full sweete , Flowers flourished in ...
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... or that Your hopeful son , when he returns from travel , Should find you , my lord , without land . You are angry For my good counsel : look you to your bonds ; had I known Of your coming , believe ' t , I would 20 ENGLISH VERSIFICATION .
... or that Your hopeful son , when he returns from travel , Should find you , my lord , without land . You are angry For my good counsel : look you to your bonds ; had I known Of your coming , believe ' t , I would 20 ENGLISH VERSIFICATION .
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... 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 great length . The curfew tolls the knell of ...
... 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 great length . The curfew tolls the knell of ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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 six-foot 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 words
Beliebte Passagen
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.