Practical Guide to English Versification: With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writingJohn Hogg, 1877 - 238 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
accent and pause accents happen Æneid Alcaic alliteration beauty blank verse burlesque Bysshe cæsura catalectic comic verse composed composition consonant couplet dactyls decasyllabic decasyllable dissyllable double rhyme Dryden eight elision English verse example fault feet fifth four fourteen syllables fourth frequent give harmony harsh Hero and Leander heroic poems hexameter iambic instance language last save last syllable Latin letters Longfellow lyric measure melody metre Milton monosyllable nouns and third number of syllables o'er observed open vowels participles of verbs persons singular present Pindaric plurals of nouns poetry poets Pope Pow'r preceding present of verbs preterites and participles pronounced pronunciation quatrain rendered rhymes plural rhythm rule seventh syllable short syllables singular of verbs singular present tense sixth syllable song song-writing sorts of verses spondee stanzas style tense of verbs third persons singular thou triplet trisyllable trochee versification vowel words write
Pasajes populares
Página 125 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Página 105 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 101 - Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew; Maidens, willow branches bear; Say I died true: My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth!
Página xiv - Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from its being founded on a new principle: namely, that of counting in each line the accents, not the syllables. Though the latter may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be found to be only four.
Página x - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 124 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Página 114 - I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Página 123 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Página 178 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Página 19 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.