Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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Samuel Ernest Sprott. CHAPTER III MINOR FORMS PENTAMETER COUPLETS ALTHOUGH pentameter couplets appear in Milton's early work , he was never excessively fond of them , and used them only for short , occasional poems or brief passages ...
Samuel Ernest Sprott. CHAPTER III MINOR FORMS PENTAMETER COUPLETS ALTHOUGH pentameter couplets appear in Milton's early work , he was never excessively fond of them , and used them only for short , occasional poems or brief passages ...
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Samuel Ernest Sprott. CHAPTER V THE IAMBIC PENTAMETER AND ITS SCANSION THERE are two types of Miltonic blank verse , one in which the lines are of varying lengths , and the other in which they remain constant ... PENTAMETER AND ITS SCANSION.
Samuel Ernest Sprott. CHAPTER V THE IAMBIC PENTAMETER AND ITS SCANSION THERE are two types of Miltonic blank verse , one in which the lines are of varying lengths , and the other in which they remain constant ... PENTAMETER AND ITS SCANSION.
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... pentameter , it may be urged that this would be the only example of a hexameter in a pentameter context in all Milton's blank verse , and that here , as elsewhere in Comus , he permits the classically short and un - elidible word which ...
... pentameter , it may be urged that this would be the only example of a hexameter in a pentameter context in all Milton's blank verse , and that here , as elsewhere in Comus , he permits the classically short and un - elidible word which ...
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