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... lyric and dramatic . It does not deal with simile and metaphor , nor does it seek to open the mind of the student to the nobler beauties of poetry . It is intended to be an introduction to the study of versification , of the metrical ...
... lyric and dramatic . It does not deal with simile and metaphor , nor does it seek to open the mind of the student to the nobler beauties of poetry . It is intended to be an introduction to the study of versification , of the metrical ...
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... lyrics which delight him by their art alone , by their ! melody , by their merely external fascination , without .. regard to their content , to their ultimate meaning . In- deed , there are not a few lovely lyrics in our language the ...
... lyrics which delight him by their art alone , by their ! melody , by their merely external fascination , without .. regard to their content , to their ultimate meaning . In- deed , there are not a few lovely lyrics in our language the ...
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... lyric or dramatic as they may be , are meant to be spoken and so they must adjust themselves to the vocal organs of man ; and they are meant to be heard and so they must be measured to the capacity of the human ear . Indeed , nearly all ...
... lyric or dramatic as they may be , are meant to be spoken and so they must adjust themselves to the vocal organs of man ; and they are meant to be heard and so they must be measured to the capacity of the human ear . Indeed , nearly all ...
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... lyric or dramatic as they may be , are meant to be spoken and so they must adjust themselves to the vocal organs of man ; and they are meant to be heard and so they must be measured to the capacity of the human ear . Indeed , nearly all ...
... lyric or dramatic as they may be , are meant to be spoken and so they must adjust themselves to the vocal organs of man ; and they are meant to be heard and so they must be measured to the capacity of the human ear . Indeed , nearly all ...
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... lyric outpourings of savages . It is wildly rhythmic , not regular , not artificial , instinctive rather than artistic . It has even the repetition and redupli- cation and overt cataloging which often characterize the chants of ...
... lyric outpourings of savages . It is wildly rhythmic , not regular , not artificial , instinctive rather than artistic . It has even the repetition and redupli- cation and overt cataloging which often characterize the chants of ...
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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