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... speech of John Bright's delivered during the Crimean war , he said that " the angel of death has been abroad through the land : we may almost hear the beating of his wings . " It would be easy to adduce other examples from the orations ...
... speech of John Bright's delivered during the Crimean war , he said that " the angel of death has been abroad through the land : we may almost hear the beating of his wings . " It would be easy to adduce other examples from the orations ...
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... speech is so accentual that we find it almost impossible to give exactly equal emphasis to two syllables in the same foot ; and we are therefore deprived of the use of the spondee , made up of two longs , a foot which was most useful in ...
... speech is so accentual that we find it almost impossible to give exactly equal emphasis to two syllables in the same foot ; and we are therefore deprived of the use of the spondee , made up of two longs , a foot which was most useful in ...
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... speech runs into iambic form more frequently than into any other kind of verse . " Probably nine tenths of English poetry is iam- bic ; this is the basis of the blank verse of Shakspere's plays and of Milton's epic , of most ballads old ...
... speech runs into iambic form more frequently than into any other kind of verse . " Probably nine tenths of English poetry is iam- bic ; this is the basis of the blank verse of Shakspere's plays and of Milton's epic , of most ballads old ...
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... speech . Our unfortunate spelling is continually sug- gesting to us that it is our duty to strive for an ex- actness of articulation which we none of us attain and which indeed we could hardly achieve without an absurd over - insistence ...
... speech . Our unfortunate spelling is continually sug- gesting to us that it is our duty to strive for an ex- actness of articulation which we none of us attain and which indeed we could hardly achieve without an absurd over - insistence ...
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... speech , a sound which , whatever it is , is certainly not identical with the e in let . In the same poem Browning under- takes to rime scaffold with baffled : - Shall I be alive that morning the scaffold Is broken away , and the long ...
... speech , a sound which , whatever it is , is certainly not identical with the e in let . In the same poem Browning under- takes to rime scaffold with baffled : - Shall I be alive that morning the scaffold Is broken away , and the long ...
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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