The Elements of English VersificationGinn, 1910 - 166 pages |
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abab Alcaic stanza Alexandrine Áll alliteration Anacrusis anapestic antistrophe ARNOLD arsis assonance ballade birds BROWNING Burns called catalectic catalexis cesura common rime common-meter consonants dactylic dactylic hexameter dissyllabic doth dreams earth effect eight-line stanza end-words English poetry envoy example eyes Faerie Queene fair feet flowers foot frequently golden half-line hath heart Heaven heptameter hexameter iambic pentameter ictus imitation imperfect rime KEATS length light lines melody meter MILTON morn night o'er octameter Paradise Lost pause poets prose quatrain rhyme rhythm rhythmical rime-scheme Ring Rose ROSSETTI roundel scansion Scholar Gipsy secondary accent septenary SHAKESPEARE SHELLEY sing sleep song sonnet soul sound Special lyrical forms SPENSER Spenserian stanzaic stichic verse stress structure sweet SWINBURNE tail-rime TENNYSON terza rima tetrameter thee thou thought tone-color trimeter trochaic tumbling verse unaccented unrimed unstressed syllable verse-stresses versification vowel W. E. HENLEY WILLIAM MORRIS wings words WORDSWORTH
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Page 122 - MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Page 120 - What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? ? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Page 125 - Oft, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me : The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain hath bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Page 119 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 116 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart ; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way, As the far bell of vesper makes him start, Seeming to weep the dying day's decay.
Page 108 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 134 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's...
Page 96 - In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
Page 114 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Page 121 - Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun ; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run ; To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core...