Chapters on English MetreUniversity Press, 1901 - 308 σελίδες |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
1st foot 3rd foot 4th foot A. J. Ellis accented syllable admits Alexandrine amphibrach anacrusis anap anapaest anapaestic line bacchius beauty beginning blank verse caesura catalectic Cenci common cretic dactyl disyllabic divided Dr Abbott Dr Guest Dr Skeat elision Ellis English hexameter English metre examples extra syllable extra-metrical extrametrical feminine ending feminine rhythm following lines four four-foot iambic give heroic iamb iambic lines initial truncation instance irregular last syllable Latin long syllable Lord Macbeth marked metre metrical accent metrists middle pause Milton monosyllabic monosyllable natural night number of syllables pitch poem poet poetry preceding pronunciation prosody pyrrhic quoted reader regular rhyme rhythmical rule scanning scansion second foot seems Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's shew short syllables slurring sometimes specimen speech spondee stanza stress superfluous syllable Tennyson thee third foot thou three syllables three-foot tribrach trisyllabic feet trochaic trochee two-foot unaccented syllable vowel words
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 90 - ... there worketh a spell, Which is lord of thy utterance, Christabel ! Thou knowest to-night, and wilt know to-morrow, This mark of my shame, this seal of my sorrow...
Σελίδα 82 - That the mighty Pan Was kindly come to live with them below; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
Σελίδα 90 - The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver; But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river: Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurl'd Anywhere, anywhere, Out of the world!
Σελίδα 271 - How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Σελίδα 88 - What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Σελίδα 218 - The very God! think, Abib; dost thou think? So, the All-Great, were the All-Loving too — So, through the thunder comes a human voice Saying, "O heart I made, a heart beats here!
Σελίδα 258 - ... anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Σελίδα 17 - Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God...
Σελίδα 91 - Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended, Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded: Faster come, faster come, Faster and faster, Chief, vassal, page and groom, Tenant and master.
Σελίδα 249 - I sang of the dancing stars, I sang of the daedal earth, And of heaven, and the giant wars, And love, and death, and birth.