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... rhyming dialogue , at least in the first four . In Love's Labour's Lost the proportion of pentameter rhyme to pentameter verse as a whole is 62 per cent , in A Midsummer Night's Dream 43 per cent , and in Romeo and Juliet and Richard II ...
... rhyming dialogue , at least in the first four . In Love's Labour's Lost the proportion of pentameter rhyme to pentameter verse as a whole is 62 per cent , in A Midsummer Night's Dream 43 per cent , and in Romeo and Juliet and Richard II ...
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... rhyme is tried : doggerel , and the snip , snap , quick and home of stichomythia in grotesque anapæstics , though in Love's Labour's Lost only , which is much the most wildly experi- mental : Will you prick't with your knife ? No point ...
... rhyme is tried : doggerel , and the snip , snap , quick and home of stichomythia in grotesque anapæstics , though in Love's Labour's Lost only , which is much the most wildly experi- mental : Will you prick't with your knife ? No point ...
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Frank Ernest Halliday. they speak in rhyme , sometimes in delicate octosyllabics , more often in decasyllabics , but lovely as their rhyming poetry is , it is surpassed by the hundred lines of blank verse in which Oberon quarrels with ...
Frank Ernest Halliday. they speak in rhyme , sometimes in delicate octosyllabics , more often in decasyllabics , but lovely as their rhyming poetry is , it is surpassed by the hundred lines of blank verse in which Oberon quarrels with ...
Contents
Chapter Page | vii |
EARLY PLAYS AND POEMS | 53 |
SONNETS AND LYRICAL PLAYS | 74 |
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