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... ballade in anapestic hexameter : - There are cliffs to be climbed on land , there are ways to be trodden and ridden ; but we Strike out from the shore as the heart invites and beseeches , athirst for the foam . And once he even ventured ...
... ballade in anapestic hexameter : - There are cliffs to be climbed on land , there are ways to be trodden and ridden ; but we Strike out from the shore as the heart invites and beseeches , athirst for the foam . And once he even ventured ...
Page 68
... ballade , and as this line was the refrain , it had to be repeated four times . Villon , our sad bad glad mad brother's name . This does not commend itself to the ear ; it sounds freakish and self - conscious . It is a glaring patch of ...
... ballade , and as this line was the refrain , it had to be repeated four times . Villon , our sad bad glad mad brother's name . This does not commend itself to the ear ; it sounds freakish and self - conscious . It is a glaring patch of ...
Page 96
... ballade and the rondeau and the triolet . Poe then went on to consider the proper length of the refrain itself ; and here his acuteness has full play . " Since its application was to be repeatedly varied , it was clear that the refrain ...
... ballade and the rondeau and the triolet . Poe then went on to consider the proper length of the refrain itself ; and here his acuteness has full play . " Since its application was to be repeatedly varied , it was clear that the refrain ...
Page 144
... ballade , and the chant - royal .... Each has a fixed form , regulated by traditional laws , and each depends upon richness of rime and delicate workmanship for its successful exercise . The first three are habitually used for joy- ous ...
... ballade , and the chant - royal .... Each has a fixed form , regulated by traditional laws , and each depends upon richness of rime and delicate workmanship for its successful exercise . The first three are habitually used for joy- ous ...
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... ballade , the largest in its framework , the widest in its range , and the most varied in its possibilities . It has had the supreme advantage of serving early as the instrument of a true poet , Villon , that " warm voice out of the ...
... ballade , the largest in its framework , the widest in its range , and the most varied in its possibilities . It has had the supreme advantage of serving early as the instrument of a true poet , Villon , that " warm voice out of the ...
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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