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... result of his skill , of the trouble he is willing to take , of his artistic integrity , of his desire to do his best always , and never to quit his work until he has made it as perfect as he can . This technical dexterity can be had ...
... result of his skill , of the trouble he is willing to take , of his artistic integrity , of his desire to do his best always , and never to quit his work until he has made it as perfect as he can . This technical dexterity can be had ...
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... result of long labor and application of an infinite number and in- finite variety of acts , are apt to conclude , from their entire inability to do the same at once , that it is not only inaccessible to themselves , but can be done by ...
... result of long labor and application of an infinite number and in- finite variety of acts , are apt to conclude , from their entire inability to do the same at once , that it is not only inaccessible to themselves , but can be done by ...
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... result of this re- semblance to music , poetry is likely to lose something of its power when the poet thinks rather of his readers than of his hearers . Therefore , the true principles of versification can be seized only when we keep ...
... result of this re- semblance to music , poetry is likely to lose something of its power when the poet thinks rather of his readers than of his hearers . Therefore , the true principles of versification can be seized only when we keep ...
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... result of this re- semblance to music , poetry is likely to lose something of its power when the poet thinks rather of his readers than of his hearers . Therefore , the true principles of versification can be seized only when we keep ...
... result of this re- semblance to music , poetry is likely to lose something of its power when the poet thinks rather of his readers than of his hearers . Therefore , the true principles of versification can be seized only when we keep ...
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... result of reducing rhythm to measure ; and it is this metrical rhythm which the writer of prose must avoid unless he is willing to annoy our ears . The orator and the novelist may deal with the same subject - matter as the poet , but ...
... result of reducing rhythm to measure ; and it is this metrical rhythm which the writer of prose must avoid unless he is willing to annoy our ears . The orator and the novelist may deal with the same subject - matter as the poet , but ...
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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