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... DISTINGUISHED FROM PROSE Rhythm , Metre , Accent , Quantity , Rhyme , Alliteration , Pa- rallelism . KINDS OF POETRY ( 1 ) Lyric . ( a ) Ode , ( b ) Ballad , ( c ) Hymn and Song , ( d ) Elegy . ( 2 ) Epic . ( a ) Classical Epics , ( b ) ...
... DISTINGUISHED FROM PROSE Rhythm , Metre , Accent , Quantity , Rhyme , Alliteration , Pa- rallelism . KINDS OF POETRY ( 1 ) Lyric . ( a ) Ode , ( b ) Ballad , ( c ) Hymn and Song , ( d ) Elegy . ( 2 ) Epic . ( a ) Classical Epics , ( b ) ...
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... distinguished from prose by metre and rhythm . Rhythm is the undulation of sound produced by the alternation of accented and unaccented syllables . Metre is the measure of rhythm . ( See page 12. ) Accent , i . e . the stress laid upon ...
... distinguished from prose by metre and rhythm . Rhythm is the undulation of sound produced by the alternation of accented and unaccented syllables . Metre is the measure of rhythm . ( See page 12. ) Accent , i . e . the stress laid upon ...
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... distinguished from songs proper by the fact of their containing a narra- tive . Love and war are the two chief subjects of ballads . Chevy Chase , the Robin Hood ballads , John Gilpin , Edwin and Angelina , and Lucy Gray may be taken as ...
... distinguished from songs proper by the fact of their containing a narra- tive . Love and war are the two chief subjects of ballads . Chevy Chase , the Robin Hood ballads , John Gilpin , Edwin and Angelina , and Lucy Gray may be taken as ...
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... distinguished from the classic drama . Besides differing in respect to the unities , the distinction be . tween tragedy and comedy is rigidly observed by the ancients , while in Shakspere the elements of the two frequently are found ...
... distinguished from the classic drama . Besides differing in respect to the unities , the distinction be . tween tragedy and comedy is rigidly observed by the ancients , while in Shakspere the elements of the two frequently are found ...
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... distinguished by quantity and not by accent ( see page 2 ) . If this is clearly kept in view we may safely employ the usual signs for marking accented and unaccented syllables ( i . e . - ~ ) without fear of their being connected with ...
... distinguished by quantity and not by accent ( see page 2 ) . If this is clearly kept in view we may safely employ the usual signs for marking accented and unaccented syllables ( i . e . - ~ ) without fear of their being connected with ...
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ALCAICS allegory amphibrach anapestic angel Aposiopesis Ballad beauty Blank Verse Books breath bright Byron called Campbell catalectic chief CLASSIC METRES comedy consists Cowper dactyl dark Death dissyllabic distinguished doth drama Dryden employed Enallage English poetry English verse epics examples eyes Faerie Queene feet figures of speech finest flower foot frequently Grade Lesson-Books grave hath heart heaven Hendiadys heroics Hexameter Hyperbaton hypermetrical iambic Iambic pentameter iambus Ibid Julius Cæsar King King Lear language Lear licenses light look measure melody metaphor metonomy metre Milton morn mountain narrative never night o'er Octameter odes Pentameter Pleonasm poems poets Pope price 18 price 9d prose rhyme rhythm sapphics satirical Schools Shakspere Shelley sigh sleep song soul sound Southey specimens Spenser STANDARD stanza stars sweet syllables Tennyson Terza Rima thee things thou thought thunder trissyllabic trochee weep wind words Wordsworth writers written youth
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Страница 36 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Страница 34 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face...
Страница 60 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Страница 70 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Страница 61 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Страница 49 - Far, far aloof the affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart...
Страница 61 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder.
Страница 50 - Pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny : 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Страница 13 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Страница 13 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him, — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away.