English Verse: Specimens Illustrating Its Principles and HistoryH. Holt, 1903 - 459 pages |
Contents
A Kinds of Accent | 3 |
B Timeintervals | 11 |
THE FOOT AND THE VERSE | 24 |
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accents alexandrine alliteration anapestic Anglo-Saxon ballad blank verse BROWNING called Catalectic century cesura Chapters on English Chaucer classical dactylic death decasyllabic doth Dryden Elizabethan English Metre English poetry English verse Essay eyes feet feminine ending five-stress foot four-stress French Gosse half-line hand harmony hath heart heaven heroic couplet hexameters iambic imitation influence Italian Keats King language Latin light syllable long line lyrical measure medial cesura melody metre metrical metrist Middle English Milton modern natural number of syllables o'er octosyllabic ottava rima pause plays poem poet poetic Pope Poulter's Measure Primer of English Professor Corson prose quoted regular rhyme rhythm satires says Schipper seems sense septenary sestet SHAKSPERE sing song sonnet soul sound Spenser spondee stanza stress strophe sweet SWINBURNE syllables TENNYSON thee thing thou thought trochaic trochee unrimed versification Waller wind words žat