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... tion of their pleasure then comes to an end , they read thenceforward by the eye alone and hear never again the chime of fair words or the march of the stately syllable . " Even now , the real approach of ... poetry to the soul of man ...
... tion of their pleasure then comes to an end , they read thenceforward by the eye alone and hear never again the chime of fair words or the march of the stately syllable . " Even now , the real approach of ... poetry to the soul of man ...
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... tion of their pleasure then comes to an end ,. they read thenceforward by the eye alone and hear never again the chime of fair words or the march of the stately syllable . " Even now , the real approach of .. · poetry to the soul of man ...
... tion of their pleasure then comes to an end ,. they read thenceforward by the eye alone and hear never again the chime of fair words or the march of the stately syllable . " Even now , the real approach of .. · poetry to the soul of man ...
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... tion , we feel that each of the four lines is equal in the time of delivery and in the number of beats . Thus there is a harmonious and satisfactory effect on the ear , although the eye may inform us that there are only three syllables ...
... tion , we feel that each of the four lines is equal in the time of delivery and in the number of beats . Thus there is a harmonious and satisfactory effect on the ear , although the eye may inform us that there are only three syllables ...
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... tion rather than for reinvigoration . It is inferior in terseness and in sharpness . The anapestic rhythm had served chiefly for satire and for humor , until the nineteenth century , when Eng- lish poets began to appreciate it and to ...
... tion rather than for reinvigoration . It is inferior in terseness and in sharpness . The anapestic rhythm had served chiefly for satire and for humor , until the nineteenth century , when Eng- lish poets began to appreciate it and to ...
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... tion that he must not disappoint our ear of its expect- ancy . He must not violently force us to read any line unnaturally , by misplacing a normal accent or by unduly prolonging a syllable . He must so compose that when we read for the ...
... tion that he must not disappoint our ear of its expect- ancy . He must not violently force us to read any line unnaturally , by misplacing a normal accent or by unduly prolonging a syllable . He must so compose that when we read for the ...
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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