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... once before you go , Call once yet ! In a voice that she will know , " Margaret ! Margaret ! " ---- Children's voices should be dear ( Call once more ) to a mother's ear ; Children's voices , wild with pain , - Surely she will come ...
... once before you go , Call once yet ! In a voice that she will know , " Margaret ! Margaret ! " ---- Children's voices should be dear ( Call once more ) to a mother's ear ; Children's voices , wild with pain , - Surely she will come ...
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... once : we shall hear it by - and - by . ( BROWNING : Abt Vogler . ) Here we have a hexameter which is neither iambic nor anapestic , but a combination of the two rhythms . So in the following specimens dissyllabic and trisyllabic feet ...
... once : we shall hear it by - and - by . ( BROWNING : Abt Vogler . ) Here we have a hexameter which is neither iambic nor anapestic , but a combination of the two rhythms . So in the following specimens dissyllabic and trisyllabic feet ...
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... once ) that she went away ? Once she sate with you and me , On a red gold throne in the heart of the sea , And the youngest sate on her knee . She combed its bright hair , and she tended it well , When down swung the sound of a far ...
... once ) that she went away ? Once she sate with you and me , On a red gold throne in the heart of the sea , And the youngest sate on her knee . She combed its bright hair , and she tended it well , When down swung the sound of a far ...
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... Once , O sweet once , I saw with dread oppressed Her whom I dread ; so that with prostrate lying , Her length the earth Love's chiefe clothing dressed . I saw that riches fall , and fell a crying THE STANZA- 65.
... Once , O sweet once , I saw with dread oppressed Her whom I dread ; so that with prostrate lying , Her length the earth Love's chiefe clothing dressed . I saw that riches fall , and fell a crying THE STANZA- 65.
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... once I saw a crowd , A host , of golden daffodils ; Beside the lake , beneath the trees , Fluttering and dancing in the breeze . ( WORDSWORTH : I wandered lonely as a cloud . 1804. ) O , how her eyes and tears did lend and borrow ! Her ...
... once I saw a crowd , A host , of golden daffodils ; Beside the lake , beneath the trees , Fluttering and dancing in the breeze . ( WORDSWORTH : I wandered lonely as a cloud . 1804. ) O , how her eyes and tears did lend and borrow ! Her ...
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accent alexandrine alliteration Altenglische anapestic Anglo-Saxon ballade beauty blank verse called Catalectic century cesura Chaucer classical consonants couplet dactylic Death doth Dryden element Elizabethan English hexameter English poetry English verse Essay expression eyes feet five-stress following specimen foot four-stress French Gosse half-line hand harmony hath heart heaven heroic heroic couplet hexameters iambic imitation Italian King kiss language Latin light syllable long line lyrical measure melody metre metrical metrist Milton modern natural o'er ottava rima pause pleasure poem poet poetic Professor Corson prose prosody quantity quoted reader regular rhyme rhythm rhythmical rime rondeau Rose run-on says Schipper seems sense septenary SHAKSPERE sing song sonnet soul sound Spenser spondees stanza stress strophe sweet SWINBURNE syllables TENNYSON tercet thee thou thought time-intervals translation trochaic trochee unto versification Villanelle vowel W. E. HENLEY wind words Wyatt þat
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Page 312 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 244 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Page 222 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back...
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Page 193 - 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'cr-informed the tenement of clay.
Page 139 - With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries ; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glowworm's eyes...
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