Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... iambic . Trochee . Great men | die and | are forgotten . In this line the number of accents gives a meter of four feet ; and the accent , falling on the first of the two syllables , thus changes the rhythm . This foot is called a ...
... iambic . Trochee . Great men | die and | are forgotten . In this line the number of accents gives a meter of four feet ; and the accent , falling on the first of the two syllables , thus changes the rhythm . This foot is called a ...
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... iambic dimeter , iambic trimeter , etc .; trochaic dimeter , trochaic tetrameter , etc .; an- apestic dimeter , anapestic trimeter , etc. Iambic Verse . Of all measures , the iambic is the most easily continued to great length : hence ...
... iambic dimeter , iambic trimeter , etc .; trochaic dimeter , trochaic tetrameter , etc .; an- apestic dimeter , anapestic trimeter , etc. Iambic Verse . Of all measures , the iambic is the most easily continued to great length : hence ...
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... Iambic pentameter is the " heroic measure " of English poetry . Most of our epic , dramatic , and descriptive po- etry is written in iambic pentameter . In its rhymed form it is the measure of Chaucer , Spenser , Dryden , Pope ...
... Iambic pentameter is the " heroic measure " of English poetry . Most of our epic , dramatic , and descriptive po- etry is written in iambic pentameter . In its rhymed form it is the measure of Chaucer , Spenser , Dryden , Pope ...
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... iambic heptameter , on account of the length of the line , is now generally divided into alternate lines of four and of three feet ; so divided , it is the common meter of our hymns , and the favorite meter of ballad poetry . The iambic ...
... iambic heptameter , on account of the length of the line , is now generally divided into alternate lines of four and of three feet ; so divided , it is the common meter of our hymns , and the favorite meter of ballad poetry . The iambic ...
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... iambic pentameter lines , the first four being an ordinary quatrain , the lines rhyming alternately ; the fifth line repeats the rhyme of the fourth , and the last two form a rhyming couplet . The following is an example : Why then doth ...
... iambic pentameter lines , the first four being an ordinary quatrain , the lines rhyming alternately ; the fifth line repeats the rhyme of the fourth , and the last two form a rhyming couplet . The following is an example : Why then doth ...
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accented adjective clause adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful birds called complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction conjunctive adverb connected dependent clause DIRECTION discourse earth English examples EXERCISE expression eyes feeling feet figure flowers following sentences give hand hath heard heart heaven hence honor hope iambic pentameter idea Inchcape Inchcape Rock kind King language light live look Lord meaning metaphor Metonymy mind modifies nature never night noun o'er object paragraph participle person phrases poetry predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme Richard Penderell RULE sail Saxon sense simile simple sentence snow sometimes soul sound speak speech statement stood style sublime subordinate conjunction sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees Trimeter trochaic truth verb verse voice wind words writer