Pope's Rape of the LockBlackie & Son, 1899 - 47 pages |
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Page xxxi
... couplet , with a pause at the end of every line , and a more or less definite conclusion of the sense at the end of the couplet , was its most distin- guishing feature . Those devices which had rendered the heroic couplets of Chaucer so ...
... couplet , with a pause at the end of every line , and a more or less definite conclusion of the sense at the end of the couplet , was its most distin- guishing feature . Those devices which had rendered the heroic couplets of Chaucer so ...
Page xxxii
... couplet , and ends with the first half of a couplet . Then , although the first line scans quite accurately , the real run of the verse tends to become trochaic , O fa'lsë | mor'drour | lur'kynge | in ' thy | den ' , because of the ...
... couplet , and ends with the first half of a couplet . Then , although the first line scans quite accurately , the real run of the verse tends to become trochaic , O fa'lsë | mor'drour | lur'kynge | in ' thy | den ' , because of the ...
Page xxxiii
... couplet is complete in itself . The sense in one instance only is carried through from one couplet to another , but even there ( between lines 6 and 7 ) a pause is not only possible but necessary , and each couplet has an isolated ...
... couplet is complete in itself . The sense in one instance only is carried through from one couplet to another , but even there ( between lines 6 and 7 ) a pause is not only possible but necessary , and each couplet has an isolated ...
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