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... English versi- fication . There are many volumes devoted to the analysis of poetry , but there are few which confine themselves wholly to the problems of prosody ; and scarcely any one of these is exactly adapted to the needs of the ...
... English versi- fication . There are many volumes devoted to the analysis of poetry , but there are few which confine themselves wholly to the problems of prosody ; and scarcely any one of these is exactly adapted to the needs of the ...
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... English versification are here derived . No other principle is even discussed , and all controversy has been rigorously eschewed . The student will not be confused by any attempt to refute any other theory ; and his time will not be ...
... English versification are here derived . No other principle is even discussed , and all controversy has been rigorously eschewed . The student will not be confused by any attempt to refute any other theory ; and his time will not be ...
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... English verse . He will not be called upon to consider the conflicting theories of English prosody . He will not be confused by constant references to the ferent metrical system which was employed by the Greek and the Latin poets ...
... English verse . He will not be called upon to consider the conflicting theories of English prosody . He will not be confused by constant references to the ferent metrical system which was employed by the Greek and the Latin poets ...
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... English verse ; and it is easy to analyze . When we read a line of English poetry we cannot help noticing that certain syllables are bolder or longer or more emphatic than others . In Longfellow's - Y - ν Tell me not , in mournful ...
... English verse ; and it is easy to analyze . When we read a line of English poetry we cannot help noticing that certain syllables are bolder or longer or more emphatic than others . In Longfellow's - Y - ν Tell me not , in mournful ...
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... English versification . There is no profit in here entering on the discussion as to the cause of this superior importance ; [ and hereafter in this book these syllables of superior importance will be called long , even though they may ...
... English versification . There is no profit in here entering on the discussion as to the cause of this superior importance ; [ and hereafter in this book these syllables of superior importance will be called long , even though they may ...
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accepted alliteration anapestic artist asserted attention Austin Dobson ballade beauty blank verse breath Browning Browning's Byron's called charm chosen colliteration composed consonants dactylic declared delight double rimes Dryden effect employed English poetry English verse example feel final line fixed form foot four lines hearer heart heptameter heroic couplet hexameter iambic pentameter iambs iambus kiss language less light long syllables Longfellow's Lowell lyric lyrist mate melody meter metrical metrist Milton never nursery-rimes o'er once pair of rimes passage pause play poem poet poet's poetic license Pope prose quatrain refrain repetition rhythm rhythmic rime-scheme rondeau Rose Shakspere Shakspere's short syllable single rime sometimes song sonnet sound speech spondee stanza substitution sweet Swinburne technic Tennyson thee theme Théodore de Banville thou thought tion trimeter triolet trochaic trochee true tune UNIVERS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA unrimed versification villanelle vowel vowel-sound wind words write