English Versification: A Complete Practical Guide to the Whole SubjectLongmans, Green, and Company, 1869 - 154 Seiten |
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... perhaps not so inappropriate as it may appear at first sight , but anyhow it is a foot and term which will trouble us little . As for spondee , it can have no accentual equivalent except with spondaic usage of weight , which makes it ...
... perhaps not so inappropriate as it may appear at first sight , but anyhow it is a foot and term which will trouble us little . As for spondee , it can have no accentual equivalent except with spondaic usage of weight , which makes it ...
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... perhaps as appropriately be hence called the musical . Having now sufficiently discussed the foot , we will proceed to another question - that of pauses . Every verse above the length of four feet has naturally a break of sub - division ...
... perhaps as appropriately be hence called the musical . Having now sufficiently discussed the foot , we will proceed to another question - that of pauses . Every verse above the length of four feet has naturally a break of sub - division ...
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... perhaps , also , not without a certain sarcastic reflection on the metre itself . Simple as the verse is in primary structure , it admits many varieties - in one phase the verse of Milton , in another that of Shakspeare . Even about a ...
... perhaps , also , not without a certain sarcastic reflection on the metre itself . Simple as the verse is in primary structure , it admits many varieties - in one phase the verse of Milton , in another that of Shakspeare . Even about a ...
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... perhaps be the best way of phrasing it . Midline the recourse to this figure , to obtain an opening accent , can be obviated by cesura at the half - foot . Since Michael and his powers went forth to tame These disobedient . Sóre hath ...
... perhaps be the best way of phrasing it . Midline the recourse to this figure , to obtain an opening accent , can be obviated by cesura at the half - foot . Since Michael and his powers went forth to tame These disobedient . Sóre hath ...
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... perhaps have been expected . The following , however , from Massinger , is an extreme case , where it is seen that the remove from prose is of the slightest nature . I find in my counting - house a manor pawned— Pawned , my good lord ...
... perhaps have been expected . The following , however , from Massinger , is an extreme case , where it is seen that the remove from prose is of the slightest nature . I find in my counting - house a manor pawned— Pawned , my good lord ...
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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.