Elements of Composition and RhetoricAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 408 Seiten |
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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 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 pentameters , the last one an iambic hexameter . In respect to the rhyme , the stanza is constructed of two ordi- nary quatrains , with lines rhyming alternately . These quatrains are then tied together by the last line of the ...
... iambic pentameters , the last one an iambic hexameter . In respect to the rhyme , the stanza is constructed of two ordi- nary quatrains , with lines rhyming alternately . These quatrains are then tied together by the last line of the ...
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... iambic pentameter , the first six rhyming alternately , the last two , in succession ; as , I 2 When I prepared my bark first to obey , As it should still obey , the helm , my mind , And carry prose or rhyme , and this my lay Of Charles ...
... iambic pentameter , the first six rhyming alternately , the last two , in succession ; as , I 2 When I prepared my bark first to obey , As it should still obey , the helm , my mind , And carry prose or rhyme , and this my lay Of Charles ...
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... iambic pentameter . Tennyson's In Memoriam is in iambic tetrameter . Shelley's Adonais is in the Spenserian stanza . The Acrostic is a poem in which the first letters of the successive lines spell a word or phrase that is the subject of ...
... iambic pentameter . Tennyson's In Memoriam is in iambic tetrameter . Shelley's Adonais is in the Spenserian stanza . The Acrostic is a poem in which the first letters of the successive lines spell a word or phrase that is the subject of ...
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acatalectic accented adjective clause adverb adverbial clause Æneid Anapestic beauty birds called comma complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction conjunctive adverb connected Dactylic dependent clause Dimeter DIRECTION discourse earth English examples EXERCISE expression eyes feeling feet figure flowers following sentences give hath heard heart heaven hence Heptameter hope iambic iambic pentameter Inchcape Inchcape Rock kind King language letter light live look Lord marks meaning metaphor meter Metonymy mind Monometer nature never night noun o'er object paragraph person phrases poem poetry praise predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme RULE sense simile simple sentences snow sometimes soul sound speak speech stanza statement stood style sublime sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees trochaic trochee truth verb verse voice wind words writer