A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... Trochaic Verse . In addition to verses with iambic rhythm , ie , which rise from unstressed syllables to stressed syllables ( § 204 ) , there are also in NE . trochaic verses which begin with a stressed syllable . There is no ...
... Trochaic Verse . In addition to verses with iambic rhythm , ie , which rise from unstressed syllables to stressed syllables ( § 204 ) , there are also in NE . trochaic verses which begin with a stressed syllable . There is no ...
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... trochaic verses of four and eight feet : Once upon a midnight dreary , While I pondered , weak and weary , Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While I nodded , nearly napping , Suddenly there came a tapping , As of ...
... trochaic verses of four and eight feet : Once upon a midnight dreary , While I pondered , weak and weary , Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While I nodded , nearly napping , Suddenly there came a tapping , As of ...
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... trochaic verses of five feet in One Word More : There they are , my fifty men and women , Naming me the fifty poems ... verses of three feet ; Shelley's Skylark ( § 240 ) consists of four such verses followed by an alexan- drine ...
... trochaic verses of five feet in One Word More : There they are , my fifty men and women , Naming me the fifty poems ... verses of three feet ; Shelley's Skylark ( § 240 ) consists of four such verses followed by an alexan- drine ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Division of English Prosody | 7 |
Old English Prosody 4501100 | 14 |
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alexandrine alliterating sound alliteration alliterative verse anacrusis anapaestic arses arsis arsis and thesis Beow Beowulf blank verse Brut caesura Chaucer Chaucerian stanza compounds consonant dactylic double alliteration dramas Engl English prosody English verse enjambement feet feminine endings foot four beats gode half-verse hath hebungen heroic couplet heroic verse hexameters iamb iambic identical rime King Horn lables Lagamon's Latin long-line Luick masculine endings metre metrical monosyllabic number of syllables ottava rima poems poetry poets regular rhythm rhythmical structure rima rimed verse romance root-syllable scheme Schipper Schwellverse second half-line septenary seven-line Shakespeare short rimed couplet short syllables Sievers sixteenth century sone sonnet strongly stressed words subsidiary stress tail-rime stanza thesis three beats three members Trautmann trochaic trochaic verses trochee two-beat theory types unrimed unstressed syllables verse of four verse-ending verses of five vowel weakly stressed words whilst þat