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... serve as an introduction to the study of English versi- fication . There are many volumes devoted to the analysis of poetry , but there are few which confine themselves wholly to the problems of prosody ; and scarcely any one of these ...
... serve as an introduction to the study of English versi- fication . There are many volumes devoted to the analysis of poetry , but there are few which confine themselves wholly to the problems of prosody ; and scarcely any one of these ...
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... serve an ap- prenticeship to his craft ; he has to acquire the art of verse ; he has to master its technic and to spy out its secrets . The poet is like the painter , who , as Sir Joshua Reynolds declared , " is a painter only as THE ...
... serve an ap- prenticeship to his craft ; he has to acquire the art of verse ; he has to master its technic and to spy out its secrets . The poet is like the painter , who , as Sir Joshua Reynolds declared , " is a painter only as THE ...
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... us ; to distinguish the different kinds of verse , to establish a type of each , by reference to which ex- isting varieties may be compared ; and , finally , to state the laws of composition which have been ob- served THE STUDY OF VERSE.
... us ; to distinguish the different kinds of verse , to establish a type of each , by reference to which ex- isting varieties may be compared ; and , finally , to state the laws of composition which have been ob- served THE STUDY OF VERSE.
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Brander Matthews. state the laws of composition which have been ob- served by those whom the world recognizes as poets . Then from this we may draw practical rules of art for the poet or the reader . " An acquaintance with the technical ...
Brander Matthews. state the laws of composition which have been ob- served by those whom the world recognizes as poets . Then from this we may draw practical rules of art for the poet or the reader . " An acquaintance with the technical ...
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... served chiefly for satire and for humor , until the nineteenth century , when Eng- lish poets began to appreciate it and to employ it for nobler topics . It was the favorite of Swinburne , who handled it with superb freedom and mastery ...
... served chiefly for satire and for humor , until the nineteenth century , when Eng- lish poets began to appreciate it and to employ it for nobler topics . It was the favorite of Swinburne , who handled it with superb freedom and mastery ...
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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