Arcades & ComusUniversity Press, 1891 - 208 pages |
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Page xlvii
... blank verse in particular arises much dispute , The Verse of not least over the blank verse of Milton . A few Comus . notes , however , on the metre , or metres , of Comus may be useful . Metrically the poem has this great interest ; it ...
... blank verse in particular arises much dispute , The Verse of not least over the blank verse of Milton . A few Comus . notes , however , on the metre , or metres , of Comus may be useful . Metrically the poem has this great interest ; it ...
Page xlviii
... blank verse is his use of what Professor Masson calls " the free musical paragraph " a verse - system , that is , " in which the mechanism is elastic , or determined from moment to moment by the swell or shrinking of the meaning or ...
... blank verse is his use of what Professor Masson calls " the free musical paragraph " a verse - system , that is , " in which the mechanism is elastic , or determined from moment to moment by the swell or shrinking of the meaning or ...
Page xlix
... Blank Verse . couplets — but in flexible combinations of verses , which wait upon his meaning , which , therefore , do not twist or strain the sense , and which are regulated by an internal concent and harmony as subtly balanced as a ...
... Blank Verse . couplets — but in flexible combinations of verses , which wait upon his meaning , which , therefore , do not twist or strain the sense , and which are regulated by an internal concent and harmony as subtly balanced as a ...
Page l
... blank verse of Comus , closely connected Apparent with what we have just been saying , is the occur- Alexandrines . rence of lines which look like Alexandrines . An Alexandrine must show six distinct beats . There is , I think , only one ...
... blank verse of Comus , closely connected Apparent with what we have just been saying , is the occur- Alexandrines . rence of lines which look like Alexandrines . An Alexandrine must show six distinct beats . There is , I think , only one ...
Page li
... verse indicated above . These are the most noteworthy features in the blank verse of Comus - its paragraph - arrangement , numerous instances of the extra - syllabled line , pseudo - Alexandrines and frequent cæsura after the third foot ...
... verse indicated above . These are the most noteworthy features in the blank verse of Comus - its paragraph - arrangement , numerous instances of the extra - syllabled line , pseudo - Alexandrines and frequent cæsura after the third foot ...
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