Writing and Reading of VerseAppleton, 1920 - 331 pages |
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Page xiii
... IX . STANZA FORMS 139 X. TETRAMETER COUPLET 162 XI . PENTAMETER LINE - HEROIC COUPLET 175 XII . BLANK VERSE . 196 XIII . SONNET 222 XIV . ODE 230 • XV . FRENCH FORMS 247 CHAPTER XVI . TROCHAIC VERSE XVII . TRIPLE RHYTHM . xiii.
... IX . STANZA FORMS 139 X. TETRAMETER COUPLET 162 XI . PENTAMETER LINE - HEROIC COUPLET 175 XII . BLANK VERSE . 196 XIII . SONNET 222 XIV . ODE 230 • XV . FRENCH FORMS 247 CHAPTER XVI . TROCHAIC VERSE XVII . TRIPLE RHYTHM . xiii.
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... heroic couplet in the age of Pope has normally five time parts to the line , which is strictly limited to ten syllables , e . g . | Plánets and | stárs run | lawless | through the | ský . The French classical alexandrine has also a ...
... heroic couplet in the age of Pope has normally five time parts to the line , which is strictly limited to ten syllables , e . g . | Plánets and | stárs run | lawless | through the | ský . The French classical alexandrine has also a ...
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... heroic verse of the age of Pope , when an arbitrary number of syllables was a strict convention , it was felt necessary ( with occasional excep- tions ) to make a pause after the fourth , fifth or sixth syllable of a line ; but the ...
... heroic verse of the age of Pope , when an arbitrary number of syllables was a strict convention , it was felt necessary ( with occasional excep- tions ) to make a pause after the fourth , fifth or sixth syllable of a line ; but the ...
Page 107
... heroic couplets was a favorite device in the seventeenth and eigh- The phrasing with so many trochaic words seems to me to add to the effect . teenth centuries for producing suggestive effects . There are , 107 MELODY OR TONE - COLOR.
... heroic couplets was a favorite device in the seventeenth and eigh- The phrasing with so many trochaic words seems to me to add to the effect . teenth centuries for producing suggestive effects . There are , 107 MELODY OR TONE - COLOR.
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... heroic quatrain a reflective mood ; the sonnet , " a moment's monument . " There is no reason for these correspondences of form and subject except that the usage of poets has made us expect them . Mr. John Masefield's brutally realistic ...
... heroic quatrain a reflective mood ; the sonnet , " a moment's monument . " There is no reason for these correspondences of form and subject except that the usage of poets has made us expect them . Mr. John Masefield's brutally realistic ...
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alexandrine Alfred Noyes alliteration anapestic antistrophe ballade blank verse Browning century cesura Chapter consonants couplet dactylic dactylic movement dimeter direct attack dissyllabic divisions duple duple rhythm duple-triple rhythm effect emphasis English verse enjambment example extra accents eyes foot four free verse give heart heptameter heroic hexameter iambic movement iambic pentameter iambic-anapestic imitative Keats light stresses line stanzas melody meter metrical Milton monotony night o'er occur octameter odes Paradise Lost passage pause pentameter phrasing Pindaric poem poetry poets Pope quatrains quoted reader refrain repetition rhythmical pattern rhythmical prose rime rime scheme Rossetti scansion sense Shelley Song sonnet sound stanza stanza form sweet Swinburne Swinburne's syllables Tennyson tetrameter thee themes thou thought tone-color trimeter triple rhythm trisyllabic feet trochaic trochaic movement tune unrimed unstressed syllable variation varied vers libre vowel wind words writing written X X X