The Foreign Sources of Modern English Versification: With Especial Reference to the So-called Iambic Lines of 8 and 10 Syllables |
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... author had ever seen any rhythm of the kind before : to have invented it out of whole cloth would have required no great effort of ingenuity . But there are those ( 2 ) who have little belief in any natural penchant of ignorant men for ...
... author had ever seen any rhythm of the kind before : to have invented it out of whole cloth would have required no great effort of ingenuity . But there are those ( 2 ) who have little belief in any natural penchant of ignorant men for ...
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... authors of these verses could have thought of Com- modian's poetry only as doggerel . Their scholarship would tell them that he used false quantities ; their instinct could not tell them that he used correctly the prosody of his own ...
... authors of these verses could have thought of Com- modian's poetry only as doggerel . Their scholarship would tell them that he used false quantities ; their instinct could not tell them that he used correctly the prosody of his own ...
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... authors have apparently sought , while observing quantity with scrupulous care , to attend to the prose accents also . The first three stanzas , for example , can be read accentually with perfect smoothness ; -they will be found to ...
... authors have apparently sought , while observing quantity with scrupulous care , to attend to the prose accents also . The first three stanzas , for example , can be read accentually with perfect smoothness ; -they will be found to ...
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... authors of the two hymns last described were anxious to respect the conventions of prosody they also were especially anxious not to thrust then into the foreground . Further but perhaps more dubious evidence of the intention of these ...
... authors of the two hymns last described were anxious to respect the conventions of prosody they also were especially anxious not to thrust then into the foreground . Further but perhaps more dubious evidence of the intention of these ...
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... authors of this transition period : and for reasons which will appear in the next chapter , the early hymns in quasi - trochaics cannot properly figure in the comparison . The materials are so scanty that our deductions cannot , of ...
... authors of this transition period : and for reasons which will appear in the next chapter , the early hymns in quasi - trochaics cannot properly figure in the comparison . The materials are so scanty that our deductions cannot , of ...
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10th century 4th syllable accentual principle accentual rhythm accentual verse Adam of St Alexandrine Ambrosian hymns anapæstic arsis arsis and thesis Augustine Augustine's psalm Aurora lucis rutilat cæsura century Chaucer's church Commodian course dactyls dissyllables early example exhibit explanation fact familiar feet fixed cæsura foot form of verse Fortunatus French decasyllabic French octosyllabics French poet French verse Greek hemistich hexameters ictus imitation influence initial inversions Kawczynski King Horn language late Latin Latin hymns Latin rhythms Latin verse latter lines long syllables metre metrical Meyer modern English modern French number of accents number of syllables octosyllabics passage penults perhaps poem poetry polysyllables probably prose accent prosody purely syllabic quantitative verse quantity quoted read accentually regarded regular rhythmical rime Roman Schipper seems short syllables specimens spondee Stengel stress strictly style syllabic principle syllabic verse theory thesis tonic syllable trochaic trochees verse-end verse-forms versification words wrenched accent
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Page 49 - Ideo autem non aliquo carminis genere id fieri volui, ne me necessitas metrica ad aliqua verba quae vulgo minus sunt usitata compelleret.
Page 80 - More miserable. Both have sinn'd ; but thou Against God only, I against God and thee ; And to the place of judgment will return, There with my cries importune Heaven, that all The sentence, from thy head removed, may light On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe ; Me — me only, just object of his ire...
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Page 59 - Quo modo et ad instar iambici metri pulcherrime factus est hymnus ille praeclarus : rex aeterne domine, rerum creator omnium, qui eras ante saecula semper cum pâtre filius, et alii Ambrosiani non pauci. Item ad formam metri trochaici canunt hymnum de die iudicii per alphabetum : apparebit repentina dies magna domini, fur obscura velut nocte improvisos occupans.
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