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... regular principle of versification except that of the correspondence ( or , more technically , parallelism ) of one clause with another . This form is probably not only the simplest but the oldest known : -indeed ac- cording to Old ...
... regular principle of versification except that of the correspondence ( or , more technically , parallelism ) of one clause with another . This form is probably not only the simplest but the oldest known : -indeed ac- cording to Old ...
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... regular recurrence of long and short , or of stressed and unstressed syllables . In other words , the verse is what we will call purely syllabic . A curious specimen of a similar form of verse is found in a Latin MS . of the 9th century ...
... regular recurrence of long and short , or of stressed and unstressed syllables . In other words , the verse is what we will call purely syllabic . A curious specimen of a similar form of verse is found in a Latin MS . of the 9th century ...
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... from Latin to English . The specimens of irregular verse that have just been cited are doubtless mere slovenly imitations of the regular rhythms to be examined later . CHAPTER II . Commodian's Verse . § 11. THE importance 12 -
... from Latin to English . The specimens of irregular verse that have just been cited are doubtless mere slovenly imitations of the regular rhythms to be examined later . CHAPTER II . Commodian's Verse . § 11. THE importance 12 -
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... regular alternation of arsis and thesis , and in them ictus and prose accent did not coincide . They exhibit the phenomenon known as " wrenched accent " , rather than inversions of foot . But in the care with which the accent of ...
... regular alternation of arsis and thesis , and in them ictus and prose accent did not coincide . They exhibit the phenomenon known as " wrenched accent " , rather than inversions of foot . But in the care with which the accent of ...
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... regular alternation of thesis and arsis than is found in ours , while the former , from the nature of their language , are hardly trained to ap- preciate an accentual rhythm at all . ( 2 ) ( 1 ) See for example Kawczynski p . 117 et seq ...
... regular alternation of thesis and arsis than is found in ours , while the former , from the nature of their language , are hardly trained to ap- preciate an accentual rhythm at all . ( 2 ) ( 1 ) See for example Kawczynski p . 117 et seq ...
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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!