The Principles of English VersificationHarvard University Press, 1922 - 215 sider |
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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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Side 125 - Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy...
Side 99 - 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.
Side 140 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Side 28 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Side 72 - When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and the foreign faces, The tongueless vigil, and all the pain.
Side 130 - 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.
Side 29 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Side 99 - Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Side 98 - 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.
Side 100 - 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.