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... alliteration , the repetition of the same initial consonant . Alliteration , as an aid to rhythm , is histori- cally earlier than rime ; indeed , it is a kind of in- complete rime at the beginning of a line . It is very prevalent in ...
... alliteration , the repetition of the same initial consonant . Alliteration , as an aid to rhythm , is histori- cally earlier than rime ; indeed , it is a kind of in- complete rime at the beginning of a line . It is very prevalent in ...
Page 82
... alliteration , taken from Poe and from the British poet who learned much from the American lyrist , and who often ... alliterations , to expect them and to wonder at them ; and while it is doing this , it is likely to fail to catch the ...
... alliteration , taken from Poe and from the British poet who learned much from the American lyrist , and who often ... alliterations , to expect them and to wonder at them ; and while it is doing this , it is likely to fail to catch the ...
Page 84
... alliteration : — Where with puffed cheek the belted hunter blew His wreathed bugle - horn . And Browning makes use of like words for a like purpose : - That bubble they were bent on blowing big , He had blown already till he burst his ...
... alliteration : — Where with puffed cheek the belted hunter blew His wreathed bugle - horn . And Browning makes use of like words for a like purpose : - That bubble they were bent on blowing big , He had blown already till he burst his ...
Page 85
... alliteration , changing its letter from line to line : - And ever , against eating cares , Lap me in soft Lydian airs , Married to immortal verse , Such as the meeting soul may pierce , In notes with many a winding bout Of linked ...
... alliteration , changing its letter from line to line : - And ever , against eating cares , Lap me in soft Lydian airs , Married to immortal verse , Such as the meeting soul may pierce , In notes with many a winding bout Of linked ...
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... alliteration to describe the recurring of the same sound as the initial of words or of long syllables , then we need ... alliteration and yet points out the differ- ence . Colliteration , then , has this advantage over alliteration ...
... alliteration to describe the recurring of the same sound as the initial of words or of long syllables , then we need ... alliteration and yet points out the differ- ence . Colliteration , then , has this advantage over alliteration ...
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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