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... language by which each specimen of verse is brought before us ; to distinguish the different kinds of verse , to establish a type of each , by reference to which ex- isting varieties may be compared ; and , finally , to state the laws ...
... language by which each specimen of verse is brought before us ; to distinguish the different kinds of verse , to establish a type of each , by reference to which ex- isting varieties may be compared ; and , finally , to state the laws ...
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... language the meaning of which is doubtful or even vague and intangible . They charm our ears with their music , even if they fail to appeal to our intellect . They live by melody , and almost by melody alone . And if this is a fact ...
... language the meaning of which is doubtful or even vague and intangible . They charm our ears with their music , even if they fail to appeal to our intellect . They live by melody , and almost by melody alone . And if this is a fact ...
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... language has its marked beats . Primitive man casts his war - songs and his love - songs into a rude but em- phatic rhythm . The wail of the tribe over its dead is rhythmic ; and so is the crooning of the mother over her babe in the ...
... language has its marked beats . Primitive man casts his war - songs and his love - songs into a rude but em- phatic rhythm . The wail of the tribe over its dead is rhythmic ; and so is the crooning of the mother over her babe in the ...
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... language has its marked beats . Primit his war - songs and his love - son phatic rhythm . rhythmic ; an vail of he cr into mate her babe in by umph has it fall character of the rhythm may be open to question ; RHYTHM 9.
... language has its marked beats . Primit his war - songs and his love - son phatic rhythm . rhythmic ; an vail of he cr into mate her babe in by umph has it fall character of the rhythm may be open to question ; RHYTHM 9.
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... 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 the other two , longer RHYTHM 15.
... 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 the other two , longer RHYTHM 15.
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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