A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students |
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... feet is called a verse ( or line ) . The individual verse must not contain more than a certain number of feet , if it is to be looked on as a metrical unity . Four feet can easily be looked on as a unity ; where there are five feet a ...
... feet is called a verse ( or line ) . The individual verse must not contain more than a certain number of feet , if it is to be looked on as a metrical unity . Four feet can easily be looked on as a unity ; where there are five feet a ...
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... feet : Once upon a midnight dreary , While I pondered , weak and weary , Over many a quaint and curious volume of ... feet , cp . iambic septenary ( § 211 ) , Tennyson , The Captain : Brave the Captain was : the seamen Made a gallant ...
... feet : Once upon a midnight dreary , While I pondered , weak and weary , Over many a quaint and curious volume of ... feet , cp . iambic septenary ( § 211 ) , Tennyson , The Captain : Brave the Captain was : the seamen Made a gallant ...
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... feet like seen the , sky the , like a battle , other because of the shortness and lack of stress of the second syllable are only trochees and cannot , therefore , be substi- tuted for dactyls ( Wölk , p . 134ff . ) . Feet like ships ...
... feet like seen the , sky the , like a battle , other because of the shortness and lack of stress of the second syllable are only trochees and cannot , therefore , be substi- tuted for dactyls ( Wölk , p . 134ff . ) . Feet like ships ...
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