Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 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 , When o'er the dark wave | the red ...
... 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 , When o'er the dark wave | the red ...
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... Tetrameter . Weary way | wanderer , | languid and | sick at heart . Hexameter . Over his | countenance | flitted a | shadow like | those on the landscape . Dactylic pentameters and heptameters are very rare . Dactylic dimeter seems ...
... Tetrameter . Weary way | wanderer , | languid and | sick at heart . Hexameter . Over his | countenance | flitted a | shadow like | those on the landscape . Dactylic pentameters and heptameters are very rare . Dactylic dimeter seems ...
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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 Anapestic beautiful 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 flowers following sentences give hath heard heart heaven hence honor hope iambic iambic pentameter Inchcape Inchcape Rock interrogation kind king language letter light live look Lord meaning meter Metonymy mind modifies Monometer nature never night noun o'er object paragraph participle person phrases poem poetry predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme RULE sail Saxon sense simple sentences snow sometimes soul sound speak stanza statement style sublime subordinate conjunction sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees trochaic truth verb verse voice wind words writer