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... SONNET VIII . OTHER FIXED FORMS IX . RIMELESS STANZAS X. THE COUPLET XI . BLANK VERSE XII . POETIC LICENSE . APPENDIX INDEX · . 1 8 31 49 73 102 125 • 144 · 176 • 200 • 225 • 244 A : SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY 263 B : BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ...
... SONNET VIII . OTHER FIXED FORMS IX . RIMELESS STANZAS X. THE COUPLET XI . BLANK VERSE XII . POETIC LICENSE . APPENDIX INDEX · . 1 8 31 49 73 102 125 • 144 · 176 • 200 • 225 • 244 A : SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY 263 B : BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ...
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... sonnet , and of a large majority of the hymns . Even in the nineteenth century , when poets were eager in de- vising new stanzaic arrangements , most of them clung to the iambus . Perhaps this immense popularity is due to the simplicity ...
... sonnet , and of a large majority of the hymns . Even in the nineteenth century , when poets were eager in de- vising new stanzaic arrangements , most of them clung to the iambus . Perhaps this immense popularity is due to the simplicity ...
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... sonnet . The reason for the popularity of these meters is physiological ; the pentameter and the heptameter adjust themselves to the normal breathing and are delivered by the voice , easily and without conscious effort . The tetrameter ...
... sonnet . The reason for the popularity of these meters is physiological ; the pentameter and the heptameter adjust themselves to the normal breathing and are delivered by the voice , easily and without conscious effort . The tetrameter ...
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... sonnet Shakspere matches open and broken , and in another remembered and tendered . We can find it in Scott : Heaven send it happy dew , Earth lend it sap anew . We can note it again in Whittier's uniting main land and train band . But ...
... sonnet Shakspere matches open and broken , and in another remembered and tendered . We can find it in Scott : Heaven send it happy dew , Earth lend it sap anew . We can note it again in Whittier's uniting main land and train band . But ...
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... sonnets in which he set forth , and at the same time exemplified , the " Power of Short Words " : Think not that strength lies in the big round word , Or that the brief and plain must needs be weak . To whom can this be true who once ...
... sonnets in which he set forth , and at the same time exemplified , the " Power of Short Words " : Think not that strength lies in the big round word , Or that the brief and plain must needs be weak . To whom can this be true who once ...
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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