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... means to designate a full metrical syllable , but the sound that forms it is not one of the clear vowel sounds which could be represented by a , e , i , o , or u . Not ti'd or manacl'd with joynt or limb , ( P.L. , I , 426 ) Swarm'd and ...
... means to designate a full metrical syllable , but the sound that forms it is not one of the clear vowel sounds which could be represented by a , e , i , o , or u . Not ti'd or manacl'd with joynt or limb , ( P.L. , I , 426 ) Swarm'd and ...
Page 44
... mean a number , in ' The Verse ' he possibly means by ' fit quantity of syllables ' not a fit number of syllables in the line ( which would have provided us with his statement of the principle of syllabic verse ) but fit length or ...
... mean a number , in ' The Verse ' he possibly means by ' fit quantity of syllables ' not a fit number of syllables in the line ( which would have provided us with his statement of the principle of syllabic verse ) but fit length or ...
Page 113
... means of expres- sion for something a man wished to say , and what this latter was will in all probability become ... mean when dis- cussing the matter . There is what Milton calls the ' Stanza or Pause ' , and this amounts to a definite ...
... means of expres- sion for something a man wished to say , and what this latter was will in all probability become ... mean when dis- cussing the matter . There is what Milton calls the ' Stanza or Pause ' , and this amounts to a definite ...
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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