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... line was divided by a natural voice - pause into two half lines with , usually , two alliterative consonants or vowels beginning the accented words in the first half- line and a third alliterative initial in the second half - line ...
... line was divided by a natural voice - pause into two half lines with , usually , two alliterative consonants or vowels beginning the accented words in the first half- line and a third alliterative initial in the second half - line ...
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... line 8 and quietly receding in the remaining six lines . The Elizabethan preference for ending with a rhyming couplet produces a more emphatic close than the Italian pattern gives . Indeed , the sixteenth - century English passion for ...
... line 8 and quietly receding in the remaining six lines . The Elizabethan preference for ending with a rhyming couplet produces a more emphatic close than the Italian pattern gives . Indeed , the sixteenth - century English passion for ...
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... lines . A brief passage ( spelling modernized ) from the description of Dido in Surrey's translation will indicate both the regularity of much of his blank verse and also the occasional shifts of stress and voice - pause which act as a ...
... lines . A brief passage ( spelling modernized ) from the description of Dido in Surrey's translation will indicate both the regularity of much of his blank verse and also the occasional shifts of stress and voice - pause which act as a ...
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UNTIL CHAUCER I | 1 |
CHAUCER HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND | 14 |
POPULAR LITERATURE | 43 |
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