Orthometry: The Art of Versification and the Technicalities of Poetry, with a New and Complete Rhyming DictionaryJ. Grant, 1931 - 376 pages |
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... verse is based upon quantity , which in Latin and Greek poetry is governed by much more rigid laws than the metrical rules of English verse . Much learned nonsense has been written upon this subject , and many attempts have been made to ...
... verse is based upon quantity , which in Latin and Greek poetry is governed by much more rigid laws than the metrical rules of English verse . Much learned nonsense has been written upon this subject , and many attempts have been made to ...
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... English rhythm . In English verse time is an accessory merely , and all attempts to string to- gether English words upon that basis only have resulted in what is neither verse nor English , for the words have to lose their proper ...
... English rhythm . In English verse time is an accessory merely , and all attempts to string to- gether English words upon that basis only have resulted in what is neither verse nor English , for the words have to lose their proper ...
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... English Prosody and Versification " ( 1816 ) ; Crowe , " Treatise on English ... Verse , or Principles of Versification , Exem- plified in Metrical ... English Literature and of the English Tongue " ; Gilbert Conway , " Treatise on ...
... English Prosody and Versification " ( 1816 ) ; Crowe , " Treatise on English ... Verse , or Principles of Versification , Exem- plified in Metrical ... English Literature and of the English Tongue " ; Gilbert Conway , " Treatise on ...
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accented syllables Æneid Alexandrine Amphibrach anapestic arrangement Ballad beauty bells blank verse Browning Burns Byron called combination Comedy composition consonants couplet Dactylic dark doth drama dreams Dryden elision English poetry English verse examples eyes feet flowers foot Francis Mahony heart heaven Heptameter heroic hexameter hiatus honour iambic iambic pentameter kind language licences light Longfellow lyric measure melody metre metrical Milton modern poets MONOMETER monosyllables muse night Normal line o'er Obsolete Octameter open vowels Paradise Lost pause pentameter pleasure plurals of nouns poems poetic Pope preterites of verbs prose quantity Queen rhymes rhythm rhythmic says sestet Shakspere Shakspere's Shelley short sigh singular of verbs sleep song sonnet soul sound species specimens speech Spenser Spondee stanza sweet syllables Tennyson tercet thee thou thought tongue trochaic trochee unaccented syllables variety versification voice vowel wind words writers youth