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... Book I of Paradise Lost ( ll . 21 , 204 , 205 , 306 , 634 ; 20 , 340 , 489 ; 566 , 616 , 778 ; 193 , 663 ; etc. ) . Inconsis- tencies , however , complicate the situation . They appear even in Book I ( 11. 198 , 200 , 212 ) ; and in ...
... Book I of Paradise Lost ( ll . 21 , 204 , 205 , 306 , 634 ; 20 , 340 , 489 ; 566 , 616 , 778 ; 193 , 663 ; etc. ) . Inconsis- tencies , however , complicate the situation . They appear even in Book I ( 11. 198 , 200 , 212 ) ; and in ...
Page 58
... book , that the omission of the pronoun in Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The Faith they owe ( P.L. , VIII , 1140-1 ) indicates an intentional lapse of style , the first instance in the poem of conversational idiom ...
... book , that the omission of the pronoun in Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The Faith they owe ( P.L. , VIII , 1140-1 ) indicates an intentional lapse of style , the first instance in the poem of conversational idiom ...
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... Book I , three in Book II , one in Book III , and four in Book IV ) ; in Samson Agonistes it was completely removed ; so that there are no less than forty - six instances . Some critics think that there may at times be two final extra ...
... Book I , three in Book II , one in Book III , and four in Book IV ) ; in Samson Agonistes it was completely removed ; so that there are no less than forty - six instances . Some critics think that there may at times be two final extra ...
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accentual verse apostrophe appear blank verse Book break Bridges Bysshe cadence caesura catalectic choruses classical completely Comus consonant Diekhoff dissyllabic dissyllable edition elided elision emendation ends of lines English enjambement examples fifth foot final elision final extrametrical syllables fourth H. C. WYLD Heav'n iamb iambic pentameters indicate instances L'Allegro later Latin licence long stress lyrical Manuscript medial metre metrical syllable midverse extrametrical Milton's blank verse Milton's intention Milton's prosody Milton's verse Miltonic blank monosyllabic monosyllable number of syllables numbers of lines occur once P.L. Paradise Lost Paradise Regain'd pause percentage poem poet poetry principle pronunciation punctuation Puttenham quantity reader Recession of stress rhyme rhythm rhythmical rule Saintsbury Samson Agonistes scansion semivowel sense sequent vowel short sonnet sound spelling spelt stanza stress position strong accent SUPERNUMERARY SYLLABLES syllabic verse synaloepha thir thou total numbers trochees VIII vpon words θα