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... combined are the origin of rhythm . [ See pp . 9 , 135 , of this Handbook . ] Yet the primitive tale was unrhythmic ; in Scherer's system the tale , like modern romances ( e.g. , Scott's ) , counts as poetry , and so we have a door ...
... combined are the origin of rhythm . [ See pp . 9 , 135 , of this Handbook . ] Yet the primitive tale was unrhythmic ; in Scherer's system the tale , like modern romances ( e.g. , Scott's ) , counts as poetry , and so we have a door ...
Page xi
... combined , like a Scandinavian Saga . Gradually the rhythm spread from the chorus and the song over the whole poem , took the form of a chant or recitation , and so produced the epic as we know it . Scherer assumes a poet or maker from ...
... combined , like a Scandinavian Saga . Gradually the rhythm spread from the chorus and the song over the whole poem , took the form of a chant or recitation , and so produced the epic as we know it . Scherer assumes a poet or maker from ...
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... combined with reflective poetry : cf. Goldsmith's Traveller and Deserted Village , or Thom- son's Seasons . There is much descriptive verse in the Excursion , the Task , and like poems ; also in the epic itself . A fine bit of ...
... combined with reflective poetry : cf. Goldsmith's Traveller and Deserted Village , or Thom- son's Seasons . There is much descriptive verse in the Excursion , the Task , and like poems ; also in the epic itself . A fine bit of ...
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... combined with vivid description that gives success to Wordsworth's best work ; it is the lack of human interest that condemns from the start the effort of the verse - maker , who says ( according to Carlyle ) , " Come , let us make a ...
... combined with vivid description that gives success to Wordsworth's best work ; it is the lack of human interest that condemns from the start the effort of the verse - maker , who says ( according to Carlyle ) , " Come , let us make a ...
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... combined materials which had been handed down from remotest times . The study of these mate- rials leads in all directions , to the prophecies of Mer- lin , the story of the Tannhäuser , and so forth ; the floating waifs of myth and ...
... combined materials which had been handed down from remotest times . The study of these mate- rials leads in all directions , to the prophecies of Mer- lin , the story of the Tannhäuser , and so forth ; the floating waifs of myth and ...
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accented syllables action Alexandrine allegory alliteration anapestic Anglo-Saxon ballad beginning-rime Beowulf blank verse Byron cæsura called Century character Chaucer classic metres combined comedy common dactylic dance drama early effect end-rime English verse epic epic poetry example famous feminine foot four accents French Germanic Greek half-verse Hamlet harmony heavy syllables heroic verse hexameter hounds of spring hovering accent iamb iambic iambic movement imitated Keats King later Latin Layamon legend license light syllables lines literature long syllable Lost Love's Labour's Lost lyric poetry measure metaphor metre metrical scheme Milton moral nature play poem poet poetical popular prose quantity regular rhetorical rhythm rhythmic pause rimed couplets rimeless rule run-on says Septenary Shak Shakspere Shakspere's short silent simile sing slurring song sonnet sounds stanza stress stress-syllable style Surrey Tennyson thee thou tion tone tragedy trochaic trochee trope unaccented syllables verse-accent vowel word-accent words
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Page 120 - The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters.
Page 118 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 239 - Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Page 239 - 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, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow...
Page 223 - If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear By external swelling : but she looks like sleep, As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace.
Page 112 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 131 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 158 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Page 130 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet But wherefore all night long shine these?
Page 200 - 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. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.