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...couplet, which is sometimes stretched out to twelve syllables, termed an Alexandrine line : A needloss Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. It doth extremely well when employed to close a period with a certain pomp and solemnity, where the...

...Prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The first example shall be of slow motion prolonged. A needless Alexandrine ends the song; That like a wounded snake, drags its alow length along. Ibid. 356. The next example is of forcible motion prolonged : The waves behind impel...

...securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er"dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motions Slow and Difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. A Rock Torn from the Brow of a Mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls,...

...securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. ' Motion slow and difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow lengthalong. A rock, torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd...

....mules securely slow ; O'erhills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motion slow and difficult, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags it slow length along, A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still jratliVing force, it smokes, and...

...pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep;' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they...languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour of a line [join. Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,...

...pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep;' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they...snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune theirown dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow, And praise the easy vigour...

...pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then, at the last, and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they...call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, 356 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes,...