Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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Page 44
... mean a number , 5 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 , 5 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 60
... means of thy deliverance ( S.A. , 603 ) Private respects must yield ; with grave authority ( S.A. , 868 ) Besides , how vile , contemptible , ridiculous , ( S.A. , 1361 ) Even Bridges writes , All such endings ... will still have a ...
... means of thy deliverance ( S.A. , 603 ) Private respects must yield ; with grave authority ( S.A. , 868 ) Besides , how vile , contemptible , ridiculous , ( S.A. , 1361 ) Even Bridges writes , All such endings ... will still have a ...
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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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