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... foot . In Longfellow's line this unit is , a long followed by a short ; and by tradition this foot is called a trochee . In Drake's line the unit is- a short followed by a long ; and this foot is called an iamb or iambus . In Byron's ...
... foot . In Longfellow's line this unit is , a long followed by a short ; and by tradition this foot is called a trochee . In Drake's line the unit is- a short followed by a long ; and this foot is called an iamb or iambus . In Byron's ...
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... foot ; and we are therefore deprived of the use of the spondee , made up of two longs , a foot which was most useful in the versifi- cation of the Greeks and Romans . More than one English word taken by itself seems to be a spondee ...
... foot ; and we are therefore deprived of the use of the spondee , made up of two longs , a foot which was most useful in the versifi- cation of the Greeks and Romans . More than one English word taken by itself seems to be a spondee ...
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... foot the ear permits many liberties with the short syl- lables ; but it tolerates only a little license with the long syllable . If there are in a line the required num- ber of long syllables , of emphatic beats , the ear is not at all ...
... foot the ear permits many liberties with the short syl- lables ; but it tolerates only a little license with the long syllable . If there are in a line the required num- ber of long syllables , of emphatic beats , the ear is not at all ...
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... foot of an iambic pentameter , as in Shakspere's O for a Muse of fire , that would / ascend . ) - - And it does not protest when a similar substitution is made in one of the other feet , as in the fourth foot of Shakspere's A kingdom ...
... foot of an iambic pentameter , as in Shakspere's O for a Muse of fire , that would / ascend . ) - - And it does not protest when a similar substitution is made in one of the other feet , as in the fourth foot of Shakspere's A kingdom ...
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... foot of either of these lines , but which stands instead of one of the two short syllables omitted at the ends of the lines preceding these two . This is evidence that the poets were not composing their lines one by one , and that they ...
... foot of either of these lines , but which stands instead of one of the two short syllables omitted at the ends of the lines preceding these two . This is evidence that the poets were not composing their lines one by one , and that they ...
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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