The Science of English VerseC. Scribner's Sons, 1880 - 295 páginas |
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16th century 3-rhythm Æneid Agincourt alliteration alliterative anacrusis Anglo-Saxon Battle of Maldon beginning blank verse Byrhtnoth called CHAPTER Chaucer colors consonants dactyl duration end-stopped end-stopped line English poetry English verse exact co-ordinations exactly example four fourth given iambic iambus illustration instrument intensity interval Italian lal lal lal line-group logical accent major portion marked marking-off means melodies method metre modern music and verse musical sounds notation observe Ormulum phenomena Phonetic Syzygy phrase phrase-groups piano pitch play poem poet present primary rhythm Puttenham reader recurrent reference rest rhyme rhythmic accent rhythmic groups rhythmic office rime run-on lines secondary rhythm Shakspere Shakspere's silences song sonnet speaking-voice speech-tune spondee stanza student syzygy term third time-value tion tone-color tones tunes of speech typic bar typic scheme utterance variations varying verse-sounds vibrations voice vowel vowel-color words Λ Λ Λ
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Página 183 - Merciful heaven! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarle'd oak, Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man! Dressed in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. . . . It is
Página 83 - in That time of year thou may'st in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang, the
Página 225 - Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt, As well as I, may spend his time in vain; And, graven with diamonds in letters plain, There is written her fair neck round about: " Noli me tangere ; for Caesar's I am, And wilde for to hold, though I seem tame.
Página 232 - Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt, As well as I, may spend his time in vain; And, graven with diamonds in letters plain, There is written her fair neck round about : " Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am, And wilde for to hold, though I seem tame.
Página 189 - and by my prescience I find my Zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. Here
Página 245 - on castle-walls And snowy summits old in story, The long light shakes across the lakes And the wild cataract leaps in glory,
Página 92 - Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea: And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. But,
Página 193 - Thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The azured harebell like thy veins, no, nor The leaf of eglantine,
Página 188 - Lost: Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; Our court shall be a little academe, Still and contemplative in living art.
Página 205 - This my mean task Would be as heavy to me as odious; but The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead And makes my labors pleasures.