English Verse: Specimens Illustrating Its Principles and HistoryRaymond Macdonald Alden H. Holt, 1903 - 459 páginas |
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... naturally pronounced with pitch - accent upon the first syllables , and with the undisturbed expira- tory word - accent upon the second . that when the word - accent is defined as expiratory this term does not exclude the inherent pitch ...
... naturally pronounced with pitch - accent upon the first syllables , and with the undisturbed expira- tory word - accent upon the second . that when the word - accent is defined as expiratory this term does not exclude the inherent pitch ...
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... ( Measure for Measure , II . ii . 117. ) These specimens of pauses in Shakspere's verse indicate the natural varieties of dramatic form . In such cases the pause often occurs between speeches , or where some action is to 20 ENGLISH VERSE.
... ( Measure for Measure , II . ii . 117. ) These specimens of pauses in Shakspere's verse indicate the natural varieties of dramatic form . In such cases the pause often occurs between speeches , or where some action is to 20 ENGLISH VERSE.
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... natural and pliable as all dactylic and spondaic forms of verse are unnatural and abhorrent . " ... " I have not attempted , " he says further , “ the impossible and undesirable task of reproducing the rare excep- tional effect of a ...
... natural and pliable as all dactylic and spondaic forms of verse are unnatural and abhorrent . " ... " I have not attempted , " he says further , “ the impossible and undesirable task of reproducing the rare excep- tional effect of a ...
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... natural sorrow , loss , or pain , That has been , and may be again ! ( WORDSWORTH : The Solitary Reaper . 1803. ) abababcc ( ottava rima ) She sat , and sewed , that hath done me the wrong Whereof I plain , and have done many a day ...
... natural sorrow , loss , or pain , That has been , and may be again ! ( WORDSWORTH : The Solitary Reaper . 1803. ) abababcc ( ottava rima ) She sat , and sewed , that hath done me the wrong Whereof I plain , and have done many a day ...
Página 117
... in empha- sizing the natural pleasure in similarity of sound found among all peoples . See below , on the related question of the origin of end - rime . and he man hunten here , smake that he negge TONE - QUALITY 117 End-rime.
... in empha- sizing the natural pleasure in similarity of sound found among all peoples . See below , on the related question of the origin of end - rime . and he man hunten here , smake that he negge TONE - QUALITY 117 End-rime.
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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 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...