English Versification: A Complete Practical Guide to the Whole SubjectLongmans, Green, and Company, 1869 - 154 páginas |
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... odd syllable at the end of the line . In the highest class this is often the principal difference as far as ... odd syllable over , or sim- ply odd - over , will be sufficient to designate this custom for after reference . Uncouth if the ...
... odd syllable at the end of the line . In the highest class this is often the principal difference as far as ... odd syllable over , or sim- ply odd - over , will be sufficient to designate this custom for after reference . Uncouth if the ...
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... syllable with much too great frequency . At present this freedom is strictly confined to the drama- tists , but ... odd syllable over at the end of the line , and a further argument for regarding always a syllable in such position as ...
... syllable with much too great frequency . At present this freedom is strictly confined to the drama- tists , but ... odd syllable over at the end of the line , and a further argument for regarding always a syllable in such position as ...
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... odd syllable over should be excluded from the former class ; its disturbing influence would be very likely to upset the solemn sedateness which constitutes the clain of blank verse to dignity . The metrical division of few verses is so ...
... odd syllable over should be excluded from the former class ; its disturbing influence would be very likely to upset the solemn sedateness which constitutes the clain of blank verse to dignity . The metrical division of few verses is so ...
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... odd syllable over seen to occur alternately throughout adds much to the quickness of the measure wherever intro- duced ; in so short a specimen doubly so , almost taking the sample out of march metre altogether into another group , for ...
... odd syllable over seen to occur alternately throughout adds much to the quickness of the measure wherever intro- duced ; in so short a specimen doubly so , almost taking the sample out of march metre altogether into another group , for ...
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... odd syllable over , ditto the last member , save that the feet are of dactyls always . Now for the ex- ample : - Sacred walls ! from whose bosom the seeds of humanity , wafted E'en to the farthest isles , morals and arts have conveyed ...
... odd syllable over , ditto the last member , save that the feet are of dactyls always . Now for the ex- ample : - Sacred walls ! from whose bosom the seeds of humanity , wafted E'en to the farthest isles , morals and arts have conveyed ...
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Términos y frases comunes
accent alliteration alternate arrangement ballad beat beauty blank verse cadence called close consonant couplet crown verse dactyl effect enclitic English epic eyes fair fall Five-foot fixed cesura flowers four feet Four-foot free verse gentle Annie Greek hand hath heart heaven hexameter hover impart instance irregular kind King Arthur language length light longer LYTTON march metre measure melody metrical nature night NUT-BROWN MAID o'er occasionally odd syllable odd-over pause piece poem poet poetic poetry primus ab prose prosody Public School Latin quatrain Queen Mab quick foot rest rhyme rhythm rhythmic roundel rule School Latin Primer seems short sing sleep song sorrow soul sound spondaic stanza star stave strong beginning structure sweet tears Telamonian Ajax thee thou three feet tone triplet tripping metre trochee unrhymed variety versification voice vowel weep winds words
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Página 105 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Página 104 - My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Página 108 - Now strike the golden lyre again: A louder yet, and yet a louder strain, Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark! the horrid sound Has raised up his head: As awaked from the dead, And amazed, he stares around. Revenge! revenge!
Página 41 - Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone: She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity. 'Fie, fie, fie...
Página 95 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...
Página 107 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Página 42 - SPAKE full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth. by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. Stars they are, wherein we read our history, As astrologers and seers of eld ; Yet not wrapped about with awful mystery, Like the burning stars, which they beheld.
Página 102 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Página 103 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung ; And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Página 82 - Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore — Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; Tis the wind and nothing more.