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... lacks . The stanza is really anapestic trimeter ; and it may be thus represented : - [ ~~ ] -1 [ ~~ ] -1 [ ~~ ] - ~~ -1 [ ~ ] ~ -1 [ ~ ] ~ - ~~ -1 ~~ -1 [ ~ ] ~ -1 ~ [ ~ ] ~ -1 ~~ -1 [ ~ ] ~ ~ In one of his " Cavalier Tunes " called ...
... lacks . The stanza is really anapestic trimeter ; and it may be thus represented : - [ ~~ ] -1 [ ~~ ] -1 [ ~~ ] - ~~ -1 [ ~ ] ~ -1 [ ~ ] ~ - ~~ -1 ~~ -1 [ ~ ] ~ -1 ~ [ ~ ] ~ -1 ~~ -1 [ ~ ] ~ ~ In one of his " Cavalier Tunes " called ...
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... into three lines : [ ~ ] ~ -1 ~~ -1 ~ u - luu- 15 In his suggestive essay on the " Rationale of Verse , " Poe adduced a most striking example of a poet's lack of regard for the eye of the reader . He 26 A STUDY OF VERSIFICATION.
... into three lines : [ ~ ] ~ -1 ~~ -1 ~ u - luu- 15 In his suggestive essay on the " Rationale of Verse , " Poe adduced a most striking example of a poet's lack of regard for the eye of the reader . He 26 A STUDY OF VERSIFICATION.
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... lacking to the trochaic . The iambic apparently has a majesty of its own which fits it for loftier themes . The trochaic is gentler , sweeter , more feminine , adapted for consola- tion rather than for reinvigoration . It is inferior in ...
... lacking to the trochaic . The iambic apparently has a majesty of its own which fits it for loftier themes . The trochaic is gentler , sweeter , more feminine , adapted for consola- tion rather than for reinvigoration . It is inferior in ...
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... lacks boldness of accent , these terminal rimes are so im- portant as to be almost essential . But in English , al- though rime is useful , it is not necessary ; and the poets of our language have adventured themselves in many forms of ...
... lacks boldness of accent , these terminal rimes are so im- portant as to be almost essential . But in English , al- though rime is useful , it is not necessary ; and the poets of our language have adventured themselves in many forms of ...
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... lack the needful identity of sound , whether they are or are not identical in spelling , he violates at once the principle of Economy of Atten- tion . He fails to provide the listeners with the specific pleasure he has led them to ...
... lack the needful identity of sound , whether they are or are not identical in spelling , he violates at once the principle of Economy of Atten- tion . He fails to provide the listeners with the specific pleasure he has led them to ...
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accepted alliteration anapestic artist asserted attention Austin Dobson ballade beauty blank verse breath Browning Browning's Byron called charm chosen colliteration composed consonants curs'd dactylic declared 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 iambic tetrameter iambs iambus kiss language less long syllables Longfellow's Lowell lyric lyrist mate melody meter metrical metrist Milton Muse never o'er once pair of rimes passage pause play poem poet poet's poetic license Pope Pope's prose quatrain refrain repetition rhythm rhythmic rime-scheme rondeau rondel Rose Shakspere Shakspere's short syllable single rime sometimes song sonnet sound speech spondee stanza sweet Swinburne Swinburne's Tennyson thee theme Théodore de Banville thou thought tion trimeter triolet trochaic trochee true unrimed versification villanelle vowel vowel-sound wind words write
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Page 100 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we — Of many far wiser than we — And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE : For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE...
Page 242 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. For his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 98 - AH, WHAT avails the sceptred race! Ah ! what the form divine ! What every virtue, every grace ! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
Page 84 - The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.
Page 238 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse...
Page 202 - But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 73 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 113 - Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Page 222 - His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast...
Page 85 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony: That Orpheus...