Elements of Composition and RhetoricAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 408 Seiten |
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... tetrameter , etc .; an- apestic dimeter , anapestic trimeter , etc. Iambic Verse . Of all measures , the iambic is the most easily continued to great length : hence it is in very com- mon use , and is peculiarly adapted for long poems ...
... tetrameter , etc .; an- apestic dimeter , anapestic trimeter , etc. Iambic Verse . Of all measures , the iambic is the most easily continued to great length : hence it is in very com- mon use , and is peculiarly adapted for long poems ...
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... tetrameter lines , rhyming alternately , and each commencing with a capital . In old books , how- ever , the second and fourth lines are made to begin with a small letter . It forms the long meter of our hymns . The scheme of any ...
... tetrameter lines , rhyming alternately , and each commencing with a capital . In old books , how- ever , the second and fourth lines are made to begin with a small letter . It forms the long meter of our hymns . The scheme of any ...
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... Tetrameter , acatalectic , with ( -- ) Are enough | for life's woes , | full enough | for its cheer . Tetrameter , acatalectic , pure When through | the torn sail | the wild tempest is streamling , Tetrameter , hypercatalec- When o'er ...
... Tetrameter , acatalectic , with ( -- ) Are enough | for life's woes , | full enough | for its cheer . Tetrameter , acatalectic , pure When through | the torn sail | the wild tempest is streamling , Tetrameter , hypercatalec- When o'er ...
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Virginia Waddy. Trimeter .. Wearing a way in his | youthfulness . Tetrameter . Weary way | wanderer , | languid and | sick at heart . Hexameter . Over his | countenance | flitted a | shadow like | those on the | landscape . Dactylic ...
Virginia Waddy. Trimeter .. Wearing a way in his | youthfulness . Tetrameter . Weary way | wanderer , | languid and | sick at heart . Hexameter . Over his | countenance | flitted a | shadow like | those on the | landscape . Dactylic ...
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... 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 the whole , generally a person's name or a motto . The ...
... 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 the whole , generally a person's name or a motto . The ...
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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