Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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Page 41
... [ cadence ] is it that maketh your meeter symphonicall . This cadence is the fal of a verse in euery last word with a certaine tunable sound which being matched with another of like sound , do make a [ concord . ] And the whole cadence is ...
... [ cadence ] is it that maketh your meeter symphonicall . This cadence is the fal of a verse in euery last word with a certaine tunable sound which being matched with another of like sound , do make a [ concord . ] And the whole cadence is ...
Page 42
... cadences of these numbers ; but let any man iudicially examine them , and he shall finde they close of themselves so ... cadence is growne to so in- timate a friendship , as it will nowe hardly euer be brought to misse it . For be the ...
... cadences of these numbers ; but let any man iudicially examine them , and he shall finde they close of themselves so ... cadence is growne to so in- timate a friendship , as it will nowe hardly euer be brought to misse it . For be the ...
Page 121
... cadence , and cadence needs little pause . If anything , of course , Milton is deliberately omitting a feature which might dispose a reader to hesitate at the end of the lines ; if the metre is not ' lame ' , he suggests , it does not ...
... cadence , and cadence needs little pause . If anything , of course , Milton is deliberately omitting a feature which might dispose a reader to hesitate at the end of the lines ; if the metre is not ' lame ' , he suggests , it does not ...
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accent according allowed apostrophe appear begins blank verse Book break Bridges cadence called classical completely Comus considered consists consonant contracted critics determine dissyllabic edition elided elision English evidence examples exception extrametrical syllables fact fall feet fifth final five foot four fourth Heav'n iambic indicate instances intention inversion language later Latin length less light London long stress loss Manuscript means measure medial metre metrical MICHIGAN Milton monosyllabic nature never noted occurs once Paradise Lost pause pentameter perhaps poem poet poetry position possible practice preceding present preserve principle printed probably pronunciation prosody punctuation quantity reader reason remain represents respect rhyme rhythm rule Samson Agonistes scansion seems sense short sometimes sound spelling stress strong syllabic verse taken third thou thought trochaic VIII vowel words writing written