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... syllables , like sullen waves In the half - glutted hollows of reef - rocks . " — Keats . " Her feet beneath her petticoat , Like little mice , stole in and out , As if they feared the light . " - Suckling . The simile , being a formal ...
... syllables , like sullen waves In the half - glutted hollows of reef - rocks . " — Keats . " Her feet beneath her petticoat , Like little mice , stole in and out , As if they feared the light . " - Suckling . The simile , being a formal ...
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... syllables in merrily with the syllables in corkscrew . Further , a syllable may be heavy or light ( also called accented or unaccented ) ac- cording as it receives more or less force or stress of L tone : compare the two syllables of ...
... syllables in merrily with the syllables in corkscrew . Further , a syllable may be heavy or light ( also called accented or unaccented ) ac- cording as it receives more or less force or stress of L tone : compare the two syllables of ...
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... syllables to each step : one syllable light , with the lifting of the foot ; the other heavy , as the foot struck the ground again : cf. the classic terms ( inconsistently used ) arsis and thesis . One thing is certain in this ...
... syllables to each step : one syllable light , with the lifting of the foot ; the other heavy , as the foot struck the ground again : cf. the classic terms ( inconsistently used ) arsis and thesis . One thing is certain in this ...
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... syllable ; in modern verse , while the main principle is the alterna- tion of heavy and light syllables , we nevertheless admit quantity as a “ regulative " element . It is a secondary factor of verse . First , as to the principle of ...
... syllable ; in modern verse , while the main principle is the alterna- tion of heavy and light syllables , we nevertheless admit quantity as a “ regulative " element . It is a secondary factor of verse . First , as to the principle of ...
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Francis Barton Gummere. pitch - accent . They weighed their syllables . Their verse depended on the contrast of heavy and light , not long and short . Accent became , as Daniel puts it in his Defense of Ryme ( 1603 ) , “ the chief lord ...
Francis Barton Gummere. pitch - accent . They weighed their syllables . Their verse depended on the contrast of heavy and light , not long and short . Accent became , as Daniel puts it in his Defense of Ryme ( 1603 ) , “ the chief lord ...
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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.