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... over , av'rice for avarice ( bad ) , declar'st for declarest , with i̇'the ... odd syllable at the end of the line . In the highest class this is often the ... odd syllable over , or sim- ply odd - over , will be sufficient to designate ...
... over , av'rice for avarice ( bad ) , declar'st for declarest , with i̇'the ... odd syllable at the end of the line . In the highest class this is often the ... odd syllable over , or sim- ply odd - over , will be sufficient to designate ...
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... odd syllable over at the end of the line , and a further argument for regarding always a syllable in such position as enclitic to the preceding foot , with the closing word of which it either forms part or is . inseparably connected ...
... odd syllable over at the end of the line , and a further argument for regarding always a syllable in such position as enclitic to the preceding foot , with the closing word of which it either forms part or is . inseparably connected ...
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... over measure at the end of one verse necessarily quickens the opening of the next . The hover and the odd - over in blank verse are natural allies : where either is freely admitted , the other is with difficulty excluded . The ...
... over measure at the end of one verse necessarily quickens the opening of the next . The hover and the odd - over in blank verse are natural allies : where either is freely admitted , the other is with difficulty excluded . The ...
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... odd syllable over seen to occur alternately throughout adds much to the quickness of the measure wherever intro- duced ; in so short a specimen doubly so , almost taking the sample out of march metre altogether into another group , for ...
... odd syllable over seen to occur alternately throughout adds much to the quickness of the measure wherever intro- duced ; in so short a specimen doubly so , almost taking the sample out of march metre altogether into another group , for ...
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... odd - over or not , at will . The last foot in the line will , as a rule , be quick , all the other five much at the discretion of the practiser , within limitations to be shortly specified . This must be regarded as the true epic or ...
... odd - over or not , at will . The last foot in the line will , as a rule , be quick , all the other five much at the discretion of the practiser , within limitations to be shortly specified . This must be regarded as the true epic or ...
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accent alliteration alternate arrangement ballad beat beauty blank verse cadence called close consonant couplet crown verse dactyl effect enclitic English epic eyes fair fall Five-foot fixed cesura flowers forward run four feet Four-foot free verse gentle Annie Greek hand hath heart heaven hexameter hover impart instance irregular kind King Arthur language length longer LYTTON march metre measure melody metrical nature night NUT-BROWN MAID o'er occasionally odd syllable odd-over pause piece poem primus ab prose prosody Public School Latin quatrain Queen Mab quick foot rest rhyme rhythm rhythmic roundel rule School Latin Primer seems short sing six-foot sleep smile song sorrow soul sound spondaic stanza star stave strong beginning structure sweet tears Telamonian Ajax tendency thee thou three feet tone triplet tripping metre trochee unrhymed variety voice vowel weep winds words