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... rest at the end of the line , and the first bar or foot begins with the long ( and strong ) syllable " now " , since measure can only proceed from one accented syllable to another . This point of view is ably argued by the Rev. M. A. ...
... rest at the end of the line , and the first bar or foot begins with the long ( and strong ) syllable " now " , since measure can only proceed from one accented syllable to another . This point of view is ably argued by the Rev. M. A. ...
Page 127
... rest upon than Byron's , -more which we can rest upon now , and which men may rest upon always . I place Wordsworth's poetry , therefore , above Byron's on the whole , although in some points he was greatly Byron's inferior , and ...
... rest upon than Byron's , -more which we can rest upon now , and which men may rest upon always . I place Wordsworth's poetry , therefore , above Byron's on the whole , although in some points he was greatly Byron's inferior , and ...
Page 155
... rest ! High in front advanced , The brandished sword of God before them blazed , Fierce as a comet ; which with torrid heat , And vapour as the Libyan air adust , Began to parch that temperate clime ; whereat In either hand the ...
... rest ! High in front advanced , The brandished sword of God before them blazed , Fierce as a comet ; which with torrid heat , And vapour as the Libyan air adust , Began to parch that temperate clime ; whereat In either hand the ...
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A. E. Housman accent adjectives appeal beauty blank verse blow Bonny Dundee brave CHAPTER clear Coleridge colour couplet Danny Deever dark death delight diction doth duple Echoing Green emotions English example expression eyes final judgement flowers following passages free verse give green hand hath heart heaven iambic pentameters imagery images imagination Johnson judge Keats light look Lyrical melody metre metrical Milton mind modern moon mountains nature neo-Classical never night o'er Paradise Lost pattern Petrarcan pleasure poem poet poet's attitude poet's purpose prosody reader rest restricted poetry rhythmic rime-scheme rimes Romantics round scansion sense sestet Shakespeare Shakespearian silver sing skies song sonnet soul sound Spring sprung rhythm stanzas statement stress style sweet syllables system of scansion T. S. Eliot thee theme things thou thought truth versification whole wind Winter's Tale words Wordsworth write