Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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Page 38
... never more and never less than five , and the number of syllables in each foot is two , and never less than two . This arrangement makes his verse syllabic in scansion , and different from that type in which the number of strong accents ...
... never more and never less than five , and the number of syllables in each foot is two , and never less than two . This arrangement makes his verse syllabic in scansion , and different from that type in which the number of strong accents ...
Page 88
... never by a consonant ; and even in works later than Comus , works in which the semivowels suffer final elision- Before them in a Cloud , and Pillar of Fire- ( P.L . , X , 1094 ) with the exception of asyllabic m and n , the semivowel is ...
... never by a consonant ; and even in works later than Comus , works in which the semivowels suffer final elision- Before them in a Cloud , and Pillar of Fire- ( P.L . , X , 1094 ) with the exception of asyllabic m and n , the semivowel is ...
Page 124
... never dwell , hope never comes ( P.L. , I , 66 ) after the seventh syllable : To bottomless pordition , there to dwell ( P.L. , I , 47 ) Confounded though immortal : But his doom ( P.L. , I , 53 ) after the eighth syllable : Fast by the ...
... never dwell , hope never comes ( P.L. , I , 66 ) after the seventh syllable : To bottomless pordition , there to dwell ( P.L. , I , 47 ) Confounded though immortal : But his doom ( P.L. , I , 53 ) after the eighth syllable : Fast by the ...
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