A Primer of English Verse: Chiefly in Its Aesthetic and Organic CharacterGinn, 1892 - 232 pages |
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abba abbaabba accented Adonais alexandrine alliteration artistic effect beautiful blank verse breath bright cadence Canto character Chaucer cloud consonants couplet dark death deep delight doth double rhyme earth emphasis English poetry examples expression eyes Faerie Queene feeling feet following stanzas foot hand hath heard heart heaven hills imparted Italian sonnet Italian type last verse lines loud love thee melody and harmony metre metrical Milton morn mountains murmuring night ninth verse o'er octave organic ottava rima painter Paradise Lost pause Petrarch poem poet poetic quatrains reader Revolt of Islam rhyme-emphasis rhyme-scheme round says second quatrain seemed sestet Shakespeare SIDNEY COLVIN silence sleep soft soul sound Spenser Spenserian stanza spirit stanzas afford stood stream subject-matter sweet Tennyson tercet thing THOMAS WARTON thou thought thro thunder Titian tone unaccented voice vowel wave wind wings words Wordsworth xa xxa