Orthometry: A Treatise on the Art of Versification and the Technicalities of Poetry, with a New and Complete Rhyming DictionaryPutnam, 1901 - 376 pages |
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accented syllables Alexandrine alliteration Amphibrach anapestic arrangement Ballad beauty bells blank verse Browning Byron composition consonants couplet Dactylic delight Dictionary doth double rhymes dramatic dreams Dryden Edition elisions English poetry English verse examples eyes feet flowers foot hath heart heaven hexameter hiatus iambic iambic pentameter instance kind King language licences light liquid consonant LL.D Longfellow Lord lyric measure melody metre metrical Milton monosyllables muse night Normal line o'er Obsolete open vowels Paradise Lost pause person singular plurals of nouns poems poetic poets Pope preterites of verbs prose pyrrhic quantity rhythm says sestet Shakspere Shakspere's Shelley short sigh singular of verbs sleep song sonnet soul sound specimens speech Spenser spondee stanza sweet syllables Tennyson tercet thee thou thought tion tongue trochaic trochee unaccented syllables variety versification vowel wind Winter's Tale words writers youth