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Brander Matthews. That these syllables have an importance superior to the other syllables ... syllable may be at once longer than the syllables which precede and follow ... short , even though they may contain long vowels . And for the sake of ...
Brander Matthews. That these syllables have an importance superior to the other syllables ... syllable may be at once longer than the syllables which precede and follow ... short , even though they may contain long vowels . And for the sake of ...
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... short syllables in succession may be discovered by a diligent examination of the whole body of English poetry ; but they are very few . - - > • In fact , our speech is so accentual that we find it almost impossible to give exactly equal ...
... short syllables in succession may be discovered by a diligent examination of the whole body of English poetry ; but they are very few . - - > • In fact , our speech is so accentual that we find it almost impossible to give exactly equal ...
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... syllable long with a short at each side Amphibrachys hastes with a stately stride : First and last being long , middle short , Amphimacer Strikes his thundering hoofs like a proud high - bred racer . To scan a line is to divide it into ...
... syllable long with a short at each side Amphibrachys hastes with a stately stride : First and last being long , middle short , Amphimacer Strikes his thundering hoofs like a proud high - bred racer . To scan a line is to divide it into ...
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... short syl- lables ; but it tolerates only a little license with the long syllable . If there are in a line the required num- ber of long syllables , of emphatic beats , the ear is not at all particular about the less important short ...
... short syl- lables ; but it tolerates only a little license with the long syllable . If there are in a line the required num- ber of long syllables , of emphatic beats , the ear is not at all particular about the less important short ...
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Brander Matthews. An even more striking illustration of the instinctive ease with which short syllables may be ... syllable in order to add weight to the long syllable , which then stands forth alone , has been utilized not only by 22 A ...
Brander Matthews. An even more striking illustration of the instinctive ease with which short syllables may be ... syllable in order to add weight to the long syllable , which then stands forth alone , has been utilized not only by 22 A ...
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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