 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1995 - 1260 ページ
...scheme of abcb, as in The Wife of Usher's Well, which begins: There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And 3 wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons. And sent them o'er the sea. Ballantyne \'Ьа1-эп-,пп \, RM, in full Robert Michael (b. April 24, 1825, Edinburgh, Scot.—... | |
 | Philip Hobsbaum - 1996 - 220 ページ
...Here are three representative stanzas from ballads; in each case, the stanza is the first in the poem: There lived a wife at Usher's Well And a wealthy wife...stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea . . . (The Wife of Usher's Well') The King sits in Dunfermline town, Drinking the blood-red wine: 'O... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 ページ
...alternates lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter (commonly with anxaxa rhyme scheme): - ' r ' r ' r There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; - ' I - ' I" T ' She had three stout and stalwart sons, And she sent them o'er the sea. In reading... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 ページ
...lines (lines i and 3) and two trimeter lines (lines 2 and 4), increasing the forward motion even more: There lived a wife at Usher's well, And a wealthy...stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. (Anonymous) Emily Dickinson's use of this form, in her anxious and ironwilled lyrics, is a part of... | |
 | Rosemary Huisman - 1998 - 202 ページ
...most commonly metrical unit and syntactic unit will coincide (as typically in the traditional ballad: //There lived a wife at Usher's Well,/ And a wealthy...three stout and stalwart sons/ And sent them o'er the sea.//)1 so that the speaker will usually breathe at the end of a metrical unit. How is this conjunction... | |
 | Ray Barker, Louis Fidge - 1999 - 132 ページ
...Ballads Dote Look carefully at the pattern of the first verse of this ballad. The Wife of Usher's Well There lived a wife at Usher's Well,'* And a wealthy...stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. Lines 2 and 4 rhyme, 4 strong beats in lines 1 and 3. | Three strong beats in lines 2 and 4. Copy this... | |
 | Peter-Eric Philipp, Andrew Lang - 2000 - 442 ページ
...fire o' coals to burn her wi' hearty cheer, And she'll never get mair o' me, O." (Child, vol. iii.) There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, Whan word came to the carlin wife That her sons she'd never see. "I wish the wind may never cease,... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 ページ
...small drops of rain; I never had but one true love; In cold grave she was lain. ['The Unquiet Grave'] There lived a wife at Usher's Well And a wealthy wife...They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely one, When word came to the carline wife [country] That her three sons were gone. They hadna been a... | |
 | James Reed - 2003 - 198 ページ
...My body lies and sleeps.' THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL [Child 79 A! There lived a wife at Usher's Weli, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and...hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her,... | |
 | Milind S. Malshe - 2003 - 210 ページ
...lived. Compare the first stanza of the poem with a typical folk ballad opening such as the following43: There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. (lines 1-4) This ballad goes on to narrate (through an 'omniscient' narrator, and without a 'frame')... | |
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THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea... 
