A History of English Rhythms, Volume 1W. Pickering, 1838 - English language |
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... alliterative , vowel , consonantal , late alliterative , and common , 117. Rhime , double and triple , 118. Final rhime , 119. Middle rhime , 124. Sectional rhime , 125. Inverse rhime , 136. Alliter- ation , 140. Unaccented rhime , 144 ...
... alliterative , vowel , consonantal , late alliterative , and common , 117. Rhime , double and triple , 118. Final rhime , 119. Middle rhime , 124. Sectional rhime , 125. Inverse rhime , 136. Alliter- ation , 140. Unaccented rhime , 144 ...
Page 116
... alliteration , or that in which only the initial sounds correspond . It pervades all our earlier poetry , and long held control over our English rhythms . We do not , however , stop here to discuss its properties ; we shall content ...
... alliteration , or that in which only the initial sounds correspond . It pervades all our earlier poetry , and long held control over our English rhythms . We do not , however , stop here to discuss its properties ; we shall content ...
Page 117
... alliteration . It was principally affected by those poets , who wrote after the subversion of our regular alliterative rhythms , and may perhaps be conveniently de- signated as modern alliteration . The latter is our common rhime , of ...
... alliteration . It was principally affected by those poets , who wrote after the subversion of our regular alliterative rhythms , and may perhaps be conveniently de- signated as modern alliteration . The latter is our common rhime , of ...
Page 120
... alliterative poems , which were written after final rhime had been introduced among us . The verse generally ends ... alliteration , and sometimes also contain internal rhime , that the rhiming syllables , moreover , are sometimes as ...
... alliterative poems , which were written after final rhime had been introduced among us . The verse generally ends ... alliteration , and sometimes also contain internal rhime , that the rhiming syllables , moreover , are sometimes as ...
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... alliteration banished , we had a fair right to expect greater caution , and very rarely indeed does Chaucer disappoint us . His rhimes are , for the most part , strictly correct . The writers who succeeded him seem to have been misled ...
... alliteration banished , we had a fair right to expect greater caution , and very rarely indeed does Chaucer disappoint us . His rhimes are , for the most part , strictly correct . The writers who succeeded him seem to have been misled ...
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accented syllable adjective alliteration alliterative couplet Anglo-Saxon poems Anglo-Saxon verse Bonduca Bruce Burns Cadmon Cæd century Chau Chaucer common compound section Comus consonant couplet Cynthia's Revels dialects dipthong dissyllable doth doubt dramatists Drayton elided elision English rhythms eyes final rhime five accents Fletcher four accents gret hallig hath Jons King Knightes Tale L'Allegro lable language Latin Layamon Lear letters Lord metre middle pause Milton occasionally Olaus Wormius old English orthography Othello Ploughman poetry poets preposition Prol pronounced pronunciation Puttenham quantity rare rhime rhiming syllables rule Sackville Samson Agon sectional pause short vowel Shrew Siege of Leith six accents sometimes Song sound Spenser substantive thee ther thou three accents triple measure tumbling verse Tusser unaccented syllable verb verse of four verse of six Verses beginning verses of five vowel wæs Wallace word writers