The Writing and Reading of VerseD. Appleton, 1918 - 327 pages |
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... alliteration , e . g . Hlóh and | hlýdde , hlýnede and | dýnede . The 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 | láwless ...
... alliteration , e . g . Hlóh and | hlýdde , hlýnede and | dýnede . The 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 | láwless ...
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... alliterative Middle English verse . Following Professor Skeat , 1 I have considered each long line as two short ones ( divided by a point in the manuscript ) , though they are printed as one . If the reader prefers , they may be ...
... alliterative Middle English verse . Following Professor Skeat , 1 I have considered each long line as two short ones ( divided by a point in the manuscript ) , though they are printed as one . If the reader prefers , they may be ...
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... alliteration in the first three stressed syllables of every two lines . The number of syllables to a foot is usually ... Alliterative Revival , " to which Piers the Plowman belongs ; but this irregular kind of rhythm has not been in ...
... alliteration in the first three stressed syllables of every two lines . The number of syllables to a foot is usually ... Alliterative Revival , " to which Piers the Plowman belongs ; but this irregular kind of rhythm has not been in ...
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... in our literature is undoubtedly that of Sir Thomas Browne . It has in the highest degree all the qualities of varied pattern , sonorous vowel sequence , musical alliteration , and even occasionally 60 THE WRITING AND READING OF VERSE.
... in our literature is undoubtedly that of Sir Thomas Browne . It has in the highest degree all the qualities of varied pattern , sonorous vowel sequence , musical alliteration , and even occasionally 60 THE WRITING AND READING OF VERSE.
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Clarence Edward Andrews. sonorous vowel sequence , musical alliteration , and even occasionally rime . An analysis of one more sentence from Urn Burial will show these characteristics : And since death must be the Lucina of life , and ...
Clarence Edward Andrews. sonorous vowel sequence , musical alliteration , and even occasionally rime . An analysis of one more sentence from Urn Burial will show these characteristics : And since death must be the Lucina of life , and ...
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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 irregular Keats light stresses line stanzas melody meter metrical metrist Milton monotony night o'er occur octameter odes Paradise Lost passage pause pentameter phrasing Pindaric poem poetry poets Pope principle quatrains quoted reader refrain repetition rhythmic change rhythmical pattern rhythmical prose 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