Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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... reason , if for nothing else , that in over six hundred lines , only seven ( five in ' L'Allegro ' and two in Comus ) have four complete feet in falling rhythm . There is more needed to account for this than the difficulty of ...
... reason , if for nothing else , that in over six hundred lines , only seven ( five in ' L'Allegro ' and two in Comus ) have four complete feet in falling rhythm . There is more needed to account for this than the difficulty of ...
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Samuel Ernest Sprott. reason for his more usual dislike of the licence . Bridges remarks , in a note to his book ... reason also for thinking that the poet himself would have classed these syllables as 58 SUPERNUMERARY SYLLABLES AND ...
Samuel Ernest Sprott. reason for his more usual dislike of the licence . Bridges remarks , in a note to his book ... reason also for thinking that the poet himself would have classed these syllables as 58 SUPERNUMERARY SYLLABLES AND ...
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... reason why these apostrophations ' cannot be well admitted ' is , apparently , that they are harsh to the ear ; if this be the true interpretation , two consequences follow : some attempt must have been made to omit the syllables in ...
... reason why these apostrophations ' cannot be well admitted ' is , apparently , that they are harsh to the ear ; if this be the true interpretation , two consequences follow : some attempt must have been made to omit the syllables in ...
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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