A Text-book on Rhetoric (1882) |
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Page 239
... verse of fewer feet , but it would be difficult to show that we often observe it in verses of ordinary length . Abbott and Seeley show that in the middle of the third foot in each of these lines : - Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind ...
... verse of fewer feet , but it would be difficult to show that we often observe it in verses of ordinary length . Abbott and Seeley show that in the middle of the third foot in each of these lines : - Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind ...
Page 248
... verse . Rhythm and metre , two of the three elements which determine the form of poetry , have been examined and illustrated . We come now to the third and last ele- ment , which is not necessary but accidental . 3. RHYME . - Rhyme is ...
... verse . Rhythm and metre , two of the three elements which determine the form of poetry , have been examined and illustrated . We come now to the third and last ele- ment , which is not necessary but accidental . 3. RHYME . - Rhyme is ...
Page 249
... verses below : - Take her up tenderly , Lift her with care , Fashioned so slenderly , Young and so fair . LINE - RHYME is the agreement in sound between the final letters of two words or of two syllables of words in the same verse , as ...
... verses below : - Take her up tenderly , Lift her with care , Fashioned so slenderly , Young and so fair . LINE - RHYME is the agreement in sound between the final letters of two words or of two syllables of words in the same verse , as ...
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