English Verse: Specimens Illustrating Its Principles and History, Volume 10Raymond Macdonald Alden |
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... songs , - " It was a lover and his lass That o'er the green corn - field did pass . " I sat with Love upon a woodside well , Leaning across the water , I and he ; Nor ever did he speak nor looked at me , But touched his lute wherein was ...
... songs , - " It was a lover and his lass That o'er the green corn - field did pass . " I sat with Love upon a woodside well , Leaning across the water , I and he ; Nor ever did he speak nor looked at me , But touched his lute wherein was ...
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... Song . ) Larger constellations burning , mellow moons and happy skies , Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster , knots of Para- ( TENNYSON : Locksley Hall . ) dise . Wild April , enkindled to laughter and storm by the kiss of the ...
... Song . ) Larger constellations burning , mellow moons and happy skies , Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster , knots of Para- ( TENNYSON : Locksley Hall . ) dise . Wild April , enkindled to laughter and storm by the kiss of the ...
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... Songs , p . 246 . Alle bat beop of huerte trewe , a stounde herknep to my song of duel , þat dep hap diht vs newe ( þat make me syke ant sorewe among ! ) of a knyht , þat wes so strong , of wham god hab don ys wille ; me punchep þat dep ...
... Songs , p . 246 . Alle bat beop of huerte trewe , a stounde herknep to my song of duel , þat dep hap diht vs newe ( þat make me syke ant sorewe among ! ) of a knyht , þat wes so strong , of wham god hab don ys wille ; me punchep þat dep ...
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... Phibbus ' car Shall shine from far , And make and mar The foolish Fates . ( SHAKSPERE : Bottom's song , in Midsummer Night's Dream , I. ii . ab . 1595. ) ( In combination with three - stress :) Only a 26 ENGLISH VERSE Two-stress iambic.
... Phibbus ' car Shall shine from far , And make and mar The foolish Fates . ( SHAKSPERE : Bottom's song , in Midsummer Night's Dream , I. ii . ab . 1595. ) ( In combination with three - stress :) Only a 26 ENGLISH VERSE Two-stress iambic.
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... Song blows off with breath that brightens ; At its flashes Their white ashes Burst in bloom that lives and lightens . ( SWINBURNE : Song in Season . ) ( Catalectic , and in combination with three - stress :) Summer's crest Red - gold ...
... Song blows off with breath that brightens ; At its flashes Their white ashes Burst in bloom that lives and lightens . ( SWINBURNE : Song in Season . ) ( Catalectic , and in combination with three - stress :) Summer's crest Red - gold ...
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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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