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... OF CA UNIVERSIT CALIFORNIA THE 1868 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE UNIVERS 1868 UNIVERSIT THE LET THE 1868 THE 1868 OF F CA ALIFORNIA THE UNIVERSI 1868 CAL THE UNIVERSI 1868 O 1868 ΤΟ W. C. BROWNELL CRITIC OF POETS AND PROSE -
... OF CA UNIVERSIT CALIFORNIA THE 1868 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE UNIVERS 1868 UNIVERSIT THE LET THE 1868 THE 1868 OF F CA ALIFORNIA THE UNIVERSI 1868 CAL THE UNIVERSI 1868 O 1868 ΤΟ W. C. BROWNELL CRITIC OF POETS AND PROSE -
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... prose . This is the simple text - book for the beginner that I have undertaken in the present volume . It is a text - book of metrical rhetoric . Its aim is to explain to the inquirer the technic of verse - making and to show him how ...
... prose . This is the simple text - book for the beginner that I have undertaken in the present volume . It is a text - book of metrical rhetoric . Its aim is to explain to the inquirer the technic of verse - making and to show him how ...
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... prose - writing . Verse - making is an admirable gymnastic ; and the necessity of mating his words in rime and of adjust- ing them to rhythm enriches the student's vocabulary and increases his control over it . Constant practice in ...
... prose - writing . Verse - making is an admirable gymnastic ; and the necessity of mating his words in rime and of adjust- ing them to rhythm enriches the student's vocabulary and increases his control over it . Constant practice in ...
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... prose . It is devoted solely to the technic of the art of verse . It is an examination of the tools of the poet's trade . Although poets are said to be born and not made , there is no doubt that they have to be made after they are born ...
... prose . It is devoted solely to the technic of the art of verse . It is an examination of the tools of the poet's trade . Although poets are said to be born and not made , there is no doubt that they have to be made after they are born ...
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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