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... verse is very different in sound and feel from the rhymed metrical verse that emerges under French influence . In its rhythm metrical verse is more neat and regular than stressed verse ; it is also capable of suggesting a greater ...
... verse is very different in sound and feel from the rhymed metrical verse that emerges under French influence . In its rhythm metrical verse is more neat and regular than stressed verse ; it is also capable of suggesting a greater ...
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... verse . Macbeth , like the great ma- jority of Elizabethan plays , is written in blank verse : unrhymed verse in iambic pentameter ( that is , five verse feet to each line , as in the sonnets read earlier ) . Occasionally , rhymed ...
... verse . Macbeth , like the great ma- jority of Elizabethan plays , is written in blank verse : unrhymed verse in iambic pentameter ( that is , five verse feet to each line , as in the sonnets read earlier ) . Occasionally , rhymed ...
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... verse , but after he became a Jesuit , in 1868 , he destroyed all the poetry he had written and resolved to write no more " unless it were by the wish of my su- periors . " Seven years later , at the request of his rector , he did ...
... verse , but after he became a Jesuit , in 1868 , he destroyed all the poetry he had written and resolved to write no more " unless it were by the wish of my su- periors . " Seven years later , at the request of his rector , he did ...
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