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... madrigal movement using the tercet and couplet . The keynote of its structure is this singleness of im- pulse . The madrigal involves a more complicated design than the air . In stanzaic structure it gets its emotion by the careful ...
... madrigal movement using the tercet and couplet . The keynote of its structure is this singleness of im- pulse . The madrigal involves a more complicated design than the air . In stanzaic structure it gets its emotion by the careful ...
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... madrigal in its treatment of its theme . Arthur H. Bullen collected lyrics from Elizabethan songbooks , They may all ... madrigals ( 1618 ) is remarkable for its quite rapidly varied long and short lines and its freedom in the han- dling ...
... madrigal in its treatment of its theme . Arthur H. Bullen collected lyrics from Elizabethan songbooks , They may all ... madrigals ( 1618 ) is remarkable for its quite rapidly varied long and short lines and its freedom in the han- dling ...
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... madrigal than the lyric of the first Quartet . But it has a basic madrigal structure , though it is mod- ified so that it can accept and take as its basic rhythm fragments of rhythm from the prayers and order of service of the Church ...
... madrigal than the lyric of the first Quartet . But it has a basic madrigal structure , though it is mod- ified so that it can accept and take as its basic rhythm fragments of rhythm from the prayers and order of service of the Church ...
Common terms and phrases
accent alliteration anapest balance beauty beginning blank verse caesura canzone combination consonants contrast couplet create developed dipodic dissyllables distinctive Donne Donne's Dryden effect elements Eliot emphasis end-stopped English verse epic falling rhythm feeling formal free verse gives a sense Greek half-line Hopkins individual lines inversion last line length light logic lyric madrigal ment meter metrical pattern metrists Milton Miss Wallerstein monosyllables move movement ottava ottava rima paragraph passage pause pentameter phrase Pindaric play poem poetry poets polysyllables Pope prose Prosody repeated repetition rhetoric rhyme words run-on line scansion sestina Shakespeare short lines single line song sonnet Sonnet 16 speech Spenser spondees sprung rhythm stress strong structure suggests suppressed beat syllable T. S. Eliot Tamburlaine Tennyson tension tetrameter thee theory thing thou thought tion tradition tremendous trimeter triple falling triple rising rhythm unstressed syllables variation vowels weight whole