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... BLANK VERSE XII . POETIC LICENSE . APPENDIX INDEX · . 1 8 31 49 73 102 125 • 144 · 176 • 200 • 225 • 244 A : SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY 263 B : BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUGGESTIONS 266 • 269 A STUDY OF VERSIFICATION CHAPTER I THE STUDY OF VERSE.
... BLANK VERSE XII . POETIC LICENSE . APPENDIX INDEX · . 1 8 31 49 73 102 125 • 144 · 176 • 200 • 225 • 244 A : SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY 263 B : BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUGGESTIONS 266 • 269 A STUDY OF VERSIFICATION CHAPTER I THE STUDY OF VERSE.
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... verse . " Probably nine tenths of English poetry is iam- bic ; this is the basis of the blank verse of Shakspere's plays and of Milton's epic , of most ballads old and new , of the heroic couplet of Dryden and of Pope , of the sonnet ...
... verse . " Probably nine tenths of English poetry is iam- bic ; this is the basis of the blank verse of Shakspere's plays and of Milton's epic , of most ballads old and new , of the heroic couplet of Dryden and of Pope , of the sonnet ...
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... blank verse and of the sonnet . The reason for the popularity of these meters is physiological ; the pentameter and the heptameter adjust themselves to the normal breathing and are delivered by the voice , easily and without conscious ...
... blank verse and of the sonnet . The reason for the popularity of these meters is physiological ; the pentameter and the heptameter adjust themselves to the normal breathing and are delivered by the voice , easily and without conscious ...
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... blank verse , a metrical instrument of surpassing power and variety , most of our verse is in rime . Although there is not yet any absolute agreement upon its rules , we may venture to define rime in Eng- lish as an identity of the ...
... blank verse , a metrical instrument of surpassing power and variety , most of our verse is in rime . Although there is not yet any absolute agreement upon its rules , we may venture to define rime in Eng- lish as an identity of the ...
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... blank verse ; and both their epic and their tragic poetry gladly wears the fetters of the riming couplet , made even more galling by the rule that a pair of masculine rimes shall always alternate with a pair of feminine rimes . Yet many ...
... blank verse ; and both their epic and their tragic poetry gladly wears the fetters of the riming couplet , made even more galling by the rule that a pair of masculine rimes shall always alternate with a pair of feminine rimes . Yet many ...
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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