English Verse: Specimens Illustrating Its Principles and HistoryRaymond Macdonald Alden H. Holt, 1903 - 459 páginas |
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... line . The foot is deter- mined by the distance from one accented syllable ... lines . Iambic and anapestic verse ( in which the light syilables commonly open the ... long and short syllables . The dif- ferent significance of the terms as ...
... line . The foot is deter- mined by the distance from one accented syllable ... lines . Iambic and anapestic verse ( in which the light syilables commonly open the ... long and short syllables . The dif- ferent significance of the terms as ...
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... Long enough your house has held you : up , and clear the way ! ( SWINBURNE : Clear the Way . ) Seven - stress ... line overcharged on purpose with a THE FOOT AND THE VERSE 45.
... Long enough your house has held you : up , and clear the way ! ( SWINBURNE : Clear the Way . ) Seven - stress ... line overcharged on purpose with a THE FOOT AND THE VERSE 45.
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... long anapestic or dactylic lines may of course be interrupted , by way of relief , by the substitution of iambi or trochees . In the specimen from Swinburne such a resting - place is found in line 3 , where a light syllable is omitted ...
... long anapestic or dactylic lines may of course be interrupted , by way of relief , by the substitution of iambi or trochees . In the specimen from Swinburne such a resting - place is found in line 3 , where a light syllable is omitted ...
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... line . ( POPE : Essay on Criticism . ) Rocks , caves , lakes , fens , bogs , dens , and shades of death . ( MILTON ... Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm . THE FOOT AND THE VERSE 57.
... line . ( POPE : Essay on Criticism . ) Rocks , caves , lakes , fens , bogs , dens , and shades of death . ( MILTON ... Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm . THE FOOT AND THE VERSE 57.
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... long , Hit is full mery in feyre foreste To here the foulys song . ( Ballad of Robin Hood and the Monk . In Gummere's English Ballads , p . 77. ) This is the familiar stanza of the early ballads . The omission of rime in the third line ...
... long , Hit is full mery in feyre foreste To here the foulys song . ( Ballad of Robin Hood and the Monk . In Gummere's English Ballads , p . 77. ) This is the familiar stanza of the early ballads . The omission of rime in the third line ...
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accent alexandrine alliteration Altenglische anapestic Anglo-Saxon ballade beauty blank verse called Catalectic century cesura Chaucer classical consonants couplet dactylic Death doth Dryden element Elizabethan English hexameter English poetry English verse Essay expression eyes feet five-stress following specimen foot four-stress French Gosse half-line hand harmony hath heart heaven heroic heroic couplet hexameters iambic imitation Italian King kiss language Latin light syllable long line lyrical measure melody metre metrical metrist Milton modern natural o'er ottava rima pause pleasure poem poet poetic Professor Corson prose prosody quantity quoted reader regular rhyme rhythm rhythmical rime rondeau Rose run-on says Schipper seems sense septenary SHAKSPERE sing song sonnet soul sound Spenser spondees stanza stress strophe sweet SWINBURNE syllables TENNYSON tercet thee thou thought time-intervals translation trochaic trochee unto versification Villanelle vowel W. E. HENLEY wind words Wyatt þat
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Página 274 - Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ; For, those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures...
Página 105 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Página 312 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 244 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Página 222 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back...
Página 66 - O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead. Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing...
Página 280 - I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Página 193 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'cr-informed the tenement of clay.
Página 139 - With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries ; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glowworm's eyes...
Página 50 - Fear death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...