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Page 21
... pauses and with its accompanying clapping of the hands . We see that the rhythm is trochaic ; and although many of the short syllables are missing , the place of each one of them is taken by a pause , by a silence , by a rest ( as it ...
... pauses and with its accompanying clapping of the hands . We see that the rhythm is trochaic ; and although many of the short syllables are missing , the place of each one of them is taken by a pause , by a silence , by a rest ( as it ...
Page 22
... pauses , by rests , can be found in another nursery - rime , that which invites us to sing a song of sixpence . One line of this , - Now wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the King ? makes it plain that we have here an iambic ...
... pauses , by rests , can be found in another nursery - rime , that which invites us to sing a song of sixpence . One line of this , - Now wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the King ? makes it plain that we have here an iambic ...
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... not missed , since their places are taken by equivalent pauses , the rhythm therefore flow- ing on unbroken . Here is the translation into sym- bols : - 33 - -001-001-001- [ ~~ ] ~ 1 ~~ 1- [ ~ ] ~ - ~~ │ [ ~~ ] [ ~~ ] -100-100-1 ...
... not missed , since their places are taken by equivalent pauses , the rhythm therefore flow- ing on unbroken . Here is the translation into sym- bols : - 33 - -001-001-001- [ ~~ ] ~ 1 ~~ 1- [ ~ ] ~ - ~~ │ [ ~~ ] [ ~~ ] -100-100-1 ...
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... pause of some sort to mark the end of the line ; and there is often a full stop , although the more accomplished masters of meter reveal their dex- terity in carrying over the sense from line to line while still keeping the structure ...
... pause of some sort to mark the end of the line ; and there is often a full stop , although the more accomplished masters of meter reveal their dex- terity in carrying over the sense from line to line while still keeping the structure ...
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... pause at its close to breathe in again . " The only effort required is that of vocal- izing and articulating ; the breathing takes care of itself , not even demanding a thought except where the sense may require a pause in the middle of ...
... pause at its close to breathe in again . " The only effort required is that of vocal- izing and articulating ; the breathing takes care of itself , not even demanding a thought except where the sense may require a pause in the middle 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