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... regarded as the sole native base of our modern system of verse , even though it is so seldom to be observed in its native state . So far as the writer is aware , it has never held sole sway in any prevailing form of verse , though ...
... regarded as the sole native base of our modern system of verse , even though it is so seldom to be observed in its native state . So far as the writer is aware , it has never held sole sway in any prevailing form of verse , though ...
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... regarded as plausible , it is worth while to point out that it does not explain the phenomena that most need explanation in our present study . All the fragments of popular song that have been cited in support of this theory are in a ...
... regarded as plausible , it is worth while to point out that it does not explain the phenomena that most need explanation in our present study . All the fragments of popular song that have been cited in support of this theory are in a ...
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... regarded by STENGEL as merely unskilled work , for as he points out , ( p . 11 ) , GOWER and Frère ANGER wrote correctly . In any case , to connect them quite wild . with the Eulalia would be of this character may have been in the dark ...
... regarded by STENGEL as merely unskilled work , for as he points out , ( p . 11 ) , GOWER and Frère ANGER wrote correctly . In any case , to connect them quite wild . with the Eulalia would be of this character may have been in the dark ...
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... regarded as long by position . It is worth noting , also , that in each of these exceptional cases the irregular foot is a dactyl , not a spondee ; -and that the same is true where a dis- syllable is irregularly used . Thus in the ...
... regarded as long by position . It is worth noting , also , that in each of these exceptional cases the irregular foot is a dactyl , not a spondee ; -and that the same is true where a dis- syllable is irregularly used . Thus in the ...
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... regarded as the writer of an isolated type of verse , but it is now plain that he is directly in the line of our research . The particular path which he opened led nowhere , it is true , because it was based on an ephemeral condition of ...
... regarded as the writer of an isolated type of verse , but it is now plain that he is directly in the line of our research . The particular path which he opened led nowhere , it is true , because it was based on an ephemeral condition 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 feet fixed cæsura foot form of verse Fortunatus French decasyllabic 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 Paris passage penults perhaps Ph.D poem poetry polysyllables probably proparoxytone prose accent prosody purely syllabic quantitative verse quantity 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 writing
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Page 103 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
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 1 - And Lamech said unto his wives: " Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man for wounding me, And a young man for bruising me: If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 94 - Seeking to find the old familiar faces. Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling? So might we talk of the old familiar faces. How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Page 59 - Quo modo et ad instar iambici metri pulcherrime factus est hymnus ille praeclarus : rex aeteme domine, rerum creator omnium, qui eras ante saecula semper cum patre 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 improvises occupans.
Page 4 - THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Page 48 - Volens etiam causam Donatistarum ad ipsius humillimi vulgi et omnino imperitorum atque idiotarum notitiam pervenire, et eorum, quantum fieri posset per nos inhaerere memoriae psalmum, qui eis cantaretur, per latinas litteras feci: sed usque ad V litteram.
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!