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... heroic couplet of Dryden and of Pope , of the sonnet , and of a large majority of the hymns . Even in the nineteenth century , when poets were eager in de- vising new stanzaic arrangements , most of them clung to the iambus . Perhaps ...
... heroic couplet of Dryden and of Pope , of the sonnet , and of a large majority of the hymns . Even in the nineteenth century , when poets were eager in de- vising new stanzaic arrangements , most of them clung to the iambus . Perhaps ...
Page 36
... heroic couplet , of 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 ...
... heroic couplet , of 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 ...
Page 199
... When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd " Whitman proved he had devised a form , loose , large and free , exactly suited to his own needs . CHAPTER X THE COUPLET With the substitution of heroic for RIMELESS STANZAS 199.
... When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd " Whitman proved he had devised a form , loose , large and free , exactly suited to his own needs . CHAPTER X THE COUPLET With the substitution of heroic for RIMELESS STANZAS 199.
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... heroic couplet , " has been most frequently employed . The heroic couplet has served not only for narrative , but also for contemplative , philosophic , descriptive and satiric expression . It demands more detailed con- sideration THE ...
... heroic couplet , " has been most frequently employed . The heroic couplet has served not only for narrative , but also for contemplative , philosophic , descriptive and satiric expression . It demands more detailed con- sideration THE ...
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... heroic couplet itself is analyzed . And as the ana- pestic tetrameter has been less often employed than the iambic tetrameter , it may be considered first . Although Byron has chosen to print " The Destruc- tion of Sennacherib " in ...
... heroic couplet itself is analyzed . And as the ana- pestic tetrameter has been less often employed than the iambic tetrameter , it may be considered first . Although Byron has chosen to print " The Destruc- tion of Sennacherib " in ...
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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