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... verse toward metrical constancy . Surrey regularized the five - stressed iambic measure , " blank verse " , which was destined to rise into " Marlowe's mighty line " , into Shakespeare's marches of music , into Milton's high - erected ...
... verse toward metrical constancy . Surrey regularized the five - stressed iambic measure , " blank verse " , which was destined to rise into " Marlowe's mighty line " , into Shakespeare's marches of music , into Milton's high - erected ...
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... verse . His treatment of the " mighty " iambic blank- verse line is famous . Marlowe's genius stands secure in its own triumphant grandeur ; although it is usually said that he developed his form of verse only to serve Shake- speare ...
... verse . His treatment of the " mighty " iambic blank- verse line is famous . Marlowe's genius stands secure in its own triumphant grandeur ; although it is usually said that he developed his form of verse only to serve Shake- speare ...
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Edwin Markham. Verse AST ruined Ilion Helen lives , PAST Alcestis rises from the shades ; Verse calls them forth ; ' tis verse that gives Immortal youth to mortal maids . Soon shall Oblivion's deepening veil Hide all the peopled hills ...
Edwin Markham. Verse AST ruined Ilion Helen lives , PAST Alcestis rises from the shades ; Verse calls them forth ; ' tis verse that gives Immortal youth to mortal maids . Soon shall Oblivion's deepening veil Hide all the peopled hills ...
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