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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... HEROIC POETRY . This term is applied only to great and lengthy narrative poems , in which the dramatic element is also introduced in the form of impassioned harangues , detailing some important national enterprise or the adventures of a ...
... HEROIC POETRY . This term is applied only to great and lengthy narrative poems , in which the dramatic element is also introduced in the form of impassioned harangues , detailing some important national enterprise or the adventures of a ...
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... heroic verse , is to have an additional syllable at the end , as : His wish and best endeavour , us asund | ĕr ... heroic cadence , and con- sisting of six feet . " By heroic cadence is meant such measures ( or feet ) as an heroic verse ...
... heroic verse , is to have an additional syllable at the end , as : His wish and best endeavour , us asund | ĕr ... heroic cadence , and con- sisting of six feet . " By heroic cadence is meant such measures ( or feet ) as an heroic verse ...
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... heroic line are allowed to the other species of iambic measure ; and , by observing upon what ground they stand , it will be seen how many of them may be taken in each species . From the account of the numerous licences which are ...
... heroic line are allowed to the other species of iambic measure ; and , by observing upon what ground they stand , it will be seen how many of them may be taken in each species . From the account of the numerous licences which are ...
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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