English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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... lines in which the number of syllables was fixed , accents came at regular intervals , and rime was much used . Chaucer , in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales for instance , hast lines normally of ten syllables , every other syllable ...
... lines in which the number of syllables was fixed , accents came at regular intervals , and rime was much used . Chaucer , in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales for instance , hast lines normally of ten syllables , every other syllable ...
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... lines are seldom composed solely of e . Spondee ( spondaic ) ' ' : “ A deád | húsh féll . " f . Pyrrhic ( pyrrhic ) ... Lines are designated as iambic , trochaic , anapæstic , etc. , ac- cording to the prevailing sort of feet in the line ...
... lines are seldom composed solely of e . Spondee ( spondaic ) ' ' : “ A deád | húsh féll . " f . Pyrrhic ( pyrrhic ) ... Lines are designated as iambic , trochaic , anapæstic , etc. , ac- cording to the prevailing sort of feet in the line ...
Pagina 431
... lines are tetrameter and pentameter . 9. The casura is the strongest pause in the line . 10. Important forms of ... Lines are often arranged in stanzas . A stanza is a group of a fixed number of lines , riming in a fixed order . Common ...
... lines are tetrameter and pentameter . 9. The casura is the strongest pause in the line . 10. Important forms of ... Lines are often arranged in stanzas . A stanza is a group of a fixed number of lines , riming in a fixed order . Common ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
Copyright | |
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