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... English versification , because in English , which is a strongly accented language , we seem to be unable to utter three syllables in succession without making one of them more important than the other two , longer RHYTHM 15.
... English versification , because in English , which is a strongly accented language , we seem to be unable to utter three syllables in succession without making one of them more important than the other two , longer RHYTHM 15.
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... seems to be a spondee , baseball , for instance , and stronghold ; but when such words are used in verse , either the first syllable or the second is likely to be so lengthened or emphasized that we have a trochee or an iambus ...
... seems to be a spondee , baseball , for instance , and stronghold ; but when such words are used in verse , either the first syllable or the second is likely to be so lengthened or emphasized that we have a trochee or an iambus ...
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... seem . [ ~ ] Here the rhythm is trochaic ; and its flow is not broken by the dropping out of these short syllables at the end of the second and fourth lines . We may translate these lines into symbols , enclosing the dropped sylla- bles ...
... seem . [ ~ ] Here the rhythm is trochaic ; and its flow is not broken by the dropping out of these short syllables at the end of the second and fourth lines . We may translate these lines into symbols , enclosing the dropped sylla- bles ...
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... seems to the eye arbitrary , not to say awkward ; and yet the untrained ear of a child has never had any difficulty in feeling the full force of the rhythm . If the emphatic syllables assert themselves , if the successive beats of the ...
... seems to the eye arbitrary , not to say awkward ; and yet the untrained ear of a child has never had any difficulty in feeling the full force of the rhythm . If the emphatic syllables assert themselves , if the successive beats of the ...
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... seem to be suppressed in one line sometimes appear in another . At the end of Tennyson's third line , we find utter , which gives the line a short syllable too much ; but at the beginning of the fourth line we find that there is a short ...
... seem to be suppressed in one line sometimes appear in another . At the end of Tennyson's third line , we find utter , which gives the line a short syllable too much ; but at the beginning of the fourth line we find that there is a short ...
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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