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... pentameter ; with six , hexameter , and with seven , heptameter . When Drake's line is scanned it is seen to be iambic tetrameter ; Byron's is anapestic tetrameter ; and Hood's is dac- tylic tetrameter , When we scan Gray's The curfew ...
... pentameter ; with six , hexameter , and with seven , heptameter . When Drake's line is scanned it is seen to be iambic tetrameter ; Byron's is anapestic tetrameter ; and Hood's is dac- tylic tetrameter , When we scan Gray's The curfew ...
Page 18
... pentameter may have an added syllable at the end almost without our noting it , as in Shakspere's To be or not / to be : that is the question . added allable Or the final short syllable of a terminal trochee may be dropped without ...
... pentameter may have an added syllable at the end almost without our noting it , as in Shakspere's To be or not / to be : that is the question . added allable Or the final short syllable of a terminal trochee may be dropped without ...
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... pentameter , as in Shakspere's O for a Muse of fire , that would / ascend . ) - - And it does not protest when a similar substitution is made in one of the other feet , as in the fourth foot of Shakspere's A kingdom for a stage ...
... pentameter , as in Shakspere's O for a Muse of fire , that would / ascend . ) - - And it does not protest when a similar substitution is made in one of the other feet , as in the fourth foot of Shakspere's A kingdom for a stage ...
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... pentameter has been used more often than any other measure ; it is the meter of the heroic couplet , of blank verse and of the sonnet . The reason for the popularity of these meters is physiological ; the pentameter and the heptameter ...
... pentameter has been used more often than any other measure ; it is the meter of the heroic couplet , of blank verse and of the sonnet . The reason for the popularity of these meters is physiological ; the pentameter and the heptameter ...
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... pentameter line , so Holmes declared , will probably be read at the rate of about fourteen lines a minute . " If a breath is allowed to each line the respiration will be longer and slower than natural , and a sense of effort and fatigue ...
... pentameter line , so Holmes declared , will probably be read at the rate of about fourteen lines a minute . " If a breath is allowed to each line the respiration will be longer and slower than natural , and a sense of effort and fatigue ...
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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