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... four are probably the only feet possible in English versification , because in English , which is a strongly accented language , we seem to be unable to utter three syllables in succession without making one of them more important than ...
... four are probably the only feet possible in English versification , because in English , which is a strongly accented language , we seem to be unable to utter three syllables in succession without making one of them more important than ...
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... four trochees ; and therefore we describe it as trochaic tetrameter . When a line has two feet we call it dimeter ; with three feet it is trimeter ; with four it is tetrameter ; with five , pentameter ; with six , hexameter , and with ...
... four trochees ; and therefore we describe it as trochaic tetrameter . When a line has two feet we call it dimeter ; with three feet it is trimeter ; with four it is tetrameter ; with five , pentameter ; with six , hexameter , and with ...
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... four emphatic beats ; and so long as the ear can perceive these beats it is satis- fied . These beats carry the tune , so to speak . The ear not only permits variation of feet inside the frame- work of beats , it is even delighted when ...
... four emphatic beats ; and so long as the ear can perceive these beats it is satis- fied . These beats carry the tune , so to speak . The ear not only permits variation of feet inside the frame- work of beats , it is even delighted when ...
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... four lines might be represented in this way : - [ _ [ ~ ] | - ~ | - [ ~ ] [ ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ - - [ ~ ] | [ ~ ] | - [ ~ ] - : Perhaps the omissions can be made more evident by noting the omissions in the lines themselves : Pease ...
... four lines might be represented in this way : - [ _ [ ~ ] | - ~ | - [ ~ ] [ ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ - - [ ~ ] | [ ~ ] | - [ ~ ] - : Perhaps the omissions can be made more evident by noting the omissions in the lines themselves : Pease ...
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... four lines is equal in the time of delivery and in the number of beats . Thus there is a harmonious and satisfactory effect on the ear , although the eye may inform us that there are only three syllables in the first line while there ...
... four lines is equal in the time of delivery and in the number of beats . Thus there is a harmonious and satisfactory effect on the ear , although the eye may inform us that there are only three syllables in the first line while there ...
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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