The Principles of English VersificationHarvard University Press, 1922 - 215 ページ |
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5-stress line abab accent Æneid alexandrine alliteration anapestic antistrophe beat beauty blank verse Browning's Byron called Chaucer combined Compare consonance dactylic Death doth effect element emotional emphasis English verse example eyes feel feet foot formal free-verse Greek hath heart heroic couplets iambic iambs Ibid imitations irregular Keats length logical means melody ment metre metrical foot metrical form metrical pattern metrical pause Metrists metronome Milton modulations monotony movement natural o'er Paradise Lost passages peculiar phrase pitch poem poetic poetry poets prose rhythm prosody quatrain regular rhyme rhythm rhythmic rhythmic units rime Samson Agonistes sense sentence sestet Shakespeare SHELLEY Shelley's short couplet simple sometimes song sonnet soul sound spatial rhythm Spenser stanza stanzaic stress substitution sweet Swinburne Swinburne's syllables syncopation Tennyson's thee thou thought tion trochaic trochee unit unstressed utter variations variety versification whole words Wordsworth
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99 ページ - Others for Language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — The style is excellent; The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
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130 ページ - If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
29 ページ - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
99 ページ - Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
98 ページ - 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'er-informed the tenement of clay.
100 ページ - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade — A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.