English Verse: Specimens Illustrating Its Principles and HistoryRaymond Macdonald Alden H. Holt, 1903 - 459 páginas |
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... Prosody ( ed . 1901 ) , Appendix J , " on the Rules of Stress Rhythms . ” B. - TIME - INTERVALS The fundamental principle of the rhythm of English verse ( and indeed of any rhythm ) is that the accents appear at regular time- intervals ...
... Prosody ( ed . 1901 ) , Appendix J , " on the Rules of Stress Rhythms . ” B. - TIME - INTERVALS The fundamental principle of the rhythm of English verse ( and indeed of any rhythm ) is that the accents appear at regular time- intervals ...
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... Imagination and Fancy . For a criti- cism of the metrical structure of Christabel , see Robert Bridges's Milton's Prosody ( ed . 1901 , pp . 73-75 ) . Another interesting Elizabethan account of the cesura is found in ACCENT AND TIME 17.
... Imagination and Fancy . For a criti- cism of the metrical structure of Christabel , see Robert Bridges's Milton's Prosody ( ed . 1901 , pp . 73-75 ) . Another interesting Elizabethan account of the cesura is found in ACCENT AND TIME 17.
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... prosody , where they are used to mark feet made up not of accented and unaccented , but of long and short syllables ... Prosody , Appendix G " On the Use of Greek Termi- nology in English Prosody . " ( 1901 ed . p . 77. ) syllables ...
... prosody , where they are used to mark feet made up not of accented and unaccented , but of long and short syllables ... Prosody , Appendix G " On the Use of Greek Termi- nology in English Prosody . " ( 1901 ed . p . 77. ) syllables ...
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... prosody of his own . Though my rime be ragged , Tattered and jagged , Rudely raine - beaten , Rusty and moth - eaten ; If ye take wel therewith , It hath in it some pith . ( JOHN SKELTON : Colyn Cloute . ab . 1510. ) This is a specimen ...
... prosody of his own . Though my rime be ragged , Tattered and jagged , Rudely raine - beaten , Rusty and moth - eaten ; If ye take wel therewith , It hath in it some pith . ( JOHN SKELTON : Colyn Cloute . ab . 1510. ) This is a specimen ...
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... prosody , and some object to its use on the ground that we have no feet wholly without stress . Its use in the sense just indicated , however , seems to be an unquestionable convenience . Excess of accent , while less common than ...
... prosody , and some object to its use on the ground that we have no feet wholly without stress . Its use in the sense just indicated , however , seems to be an unquestionable convenience . Excess of accent , while less common than ...
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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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