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... Foot is the unit of metre , answering to a bar in music . It consists of a group of either two or three syllables , one of which is accented . A Verse is a cycle of feet constituting one line of poetry . A Couplet is two consecutive ...
... Foot is the unit of metre , answering to a bar in music . It consists of a group of either two or three syllables , one of which is accented . A Verse is a cycle of feet constituting one line of poetry . A Couplet is two consecutive ...
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... foot consists of either two or three syllables , whether of the same word or not . A dissyllabic foot , when accented on the second syllable , is called an iambus ; when on the first a trochee . A trisyllabic foot , when accented on the ...
... foot consists of either two or three syllables , whether of the same word or not . A dissyllabic foot , when accented on the second syllable , is called an iambus ; when on the first a trochee . A trisyllabic foot , when accented on the ...
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... foot marks one by one , Into the middle of the plank— And further there was none ! I am the Rider of | the wind , The Stirrer of the storm ; The hurricane | I left behind Is yet with light | ning warm . Wordsworth . Byron . While ...
... foot marks one by one , Into the middle of the plank— And further there was none ! I am the Rider of | the wind , The Stirrer of the storm ; The hurricane | I left behind Is yet with light | ning warm . Wordsworth . Byron . While ...
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... foot steps in | the deep , And rides upon | the storm . Cowper . Sometimes , but rarely , octameter iambics are met with , but these are now generally printed as two tetrameter lines , constituting the Long metre of our psalms : e . g ...
... foot steps in | the deep , And rides upon | the storm . Cowper . Sometimes , but rarely , octameter iambics are met with , but these are now generally printed as two tetrameter lines , constituting the Long metre of our psalms : e . g ...
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... foot , but frequently in the first . Two trochees , however , are rarely found together . ( 2 ) Two , and sometimes even three , unaccented syllables may occur in any part of a verse instead of the unaccented half of the foot : in other ...
... foot , but frequently in the first . Two trochees , however , are rarely found together . ( 2 ) Two , and sometimes even three , unaccented syllables may occur in any part of a verse instead of the unaccented half of the foot : in other ...
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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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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 60 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.