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Page 73
... the appropri- ateness of the metre in the following- Though like a wanderer , Daylight all gone , Darkness be over me , My rest a stone , Yet in my dreams I ' d be Nearer , my God , to thee , Nearer to MEANINGS OF THE METRES . 73.
... the appropri- ateness of the metre in the following- Though like a wanderer , Daylight all gone , Darkness be over me , My rest a stone , Yet in my dreams I ' d be Nearer , my God , to thee , Nearer to MEANINGS OF THE METRES . 73.
Page 85
... dark , There shall corpse lie stiff and stark . -Halcro's Verses in The Pirate : Scott . Not in vain the distance beacons , Forward , forward let us range , Let the old world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change . -Locksley ...
... dark , There shall corpse lie stiff and stark . -Halcro's Verses in The Pirate : Scott . Not in vain the distance beacons , Forward , forward let us range , Let the old world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change . -Locksley ...
Page 86
... dark and friends are few , On Him I lean who not in vain Experienced every human pain . -Hymn : Grant . Till their chimes in sweet collision Mingled with each wandering vision , Mingled with the fortune - telling Gypsy bands of dreams ...
... dark and friends are few , On Him I lean who not in vain Experienced every human pain . -Hymn : Grant . Till their chimes in sweet collision Mingled with each wandering vision , Mingled with the fortune - telling Gypsy bands of dreams ...
Page 91
... dark blue ocean , roll . -Childe Harold : Byron . It is hardly necessary to add that , as related to these two extremes , words conveying intelligence of merely ordinary matters , would be uttered at a medium pitch , somewhere between ...
... dark blue ocean , roll . -Childe Harold : Byron . It is hardly necessary to add that , as related to these two extremes , words conveying intelligence of merely ordinary matters , would be uttered at a medium pitch , somewhere between ...
Page 110
... dark December glooms the day And takes my autumn joys away ; When short and scant the sunbeam throws Upon the weary waste of snows A cold and profitless regard , * When such the country cheer , I come , Well pleased , to seek my city ...
... dark December glooms the day And takes my autumn joys away ; When short and scant the sunbeam throws Upon the weary waste of snows A cold and profitless regard , * When such the country cheer , I come , Well pleased , to seek my city ...
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accented syllable æsthetic alloyed artistic beginning breath cæsura CHAPTER character circumflex clouds comparison connection corresponding dark developed direct representation effects elements elocution elocutionary emotive expression eyes fact falling feeling feet figurative language force G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS give Greek heaven heigh-ho hexameter Homer ideas Idem Iliad illustrative representation imitative sounds indicates inflection instance instinctive Jean Ingelow kind light Locksley Hall Longfellow meaning metaphors methods metonymy metre Milton mind movement nature Notice o'er Othello Paradise Lost passage pause picture pitch plain language pleonasm poem poet poetic poetry present principles produced prose quotations reason reference reflective repre rhymes rhythm rising says sense sentence Shakespear simile singing Song soul stanza stream stress suggested sweet syllables tendency Tennyson termed terminal thee theory thing thou tion tone triple measure truth unaccented syllables utterance verse voice vowels wind words