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1st foot 3rd foot 4th foot A. J. Ellis accented syllable admits Alexandrine amphibrach anacrusis anap anapaest anapaestic lines bacchius beauty beginning blank verse caesura catalectic Cenci common cretic dactyl disyllabic divided Dr Abbott Dr Guest Dr Skeat elision Ellis English hexameter English metre examples extra syllable extra-metrical extrametrical feminine ending feminine rhythm fifth measure following lines four four-foot iambic give heroic iamb iambic lines initial truncation instance irregular last syllable Latin long syllable Lord Macbeth marked metre metrical accent metrists Milton monosyllabic monosyllable natural night number of syllables pitch poem poet poetry preceding pronunciation prose prosody pyrrhic quoted reader regular rhyme rhythmical rule scanning scansion second foot seems Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's shew short syllables slurring sometimes specimen speech spondee stanza stress superfluous syllable Tennyson thee third foot thou three syllables three-foot tribrach trisyllabic feet trochaic trochee two-foot unaccented syllable vowel words
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Page 19 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 93 - And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping, And curling and whirling and purling and twirling, And thumping and plumping and bumping and jumping, And dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing; And so never ending, but always descending, Sounds and motions for ever and ever are blending, All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar; And this way the Water comes down at Lodore.
Page 17 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know? Of man, what see we but his station here From which to reason or to which refer?
Page 148 - BREAD of the world in mercy broken, wine of the soul in mercy shed, by whom the words of life were spoken, and in whose death our sins are dead: look on the heart by sorrow broken, look on the tears by sinners shed, and be thy feast to us the token that by thy grace our souls are fed!
Page 274 - Softly the Angelus sounded, and over the roofs of the village Columns of pale blue smoke, like clouds of incense ascending, Rose from a hundred hearths, the homes of peace and contentment. Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers, Dwelt in the love of God and of man.
Page 279 - Thou makest darkness, that it may be night ; wherein all the beasts of the forest do move. 21 The lions, roaring after their prey, do seek their meat from GOD.
Page 88 - What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Page 150 - JESUS calls us ; o'er the tumult Of our life's wild, restless sea, Day by day His sweet voice soundeth, Saying, "Christian, follow Me;
Page 221 - HELLAS THE world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Page 146 - T^HROUGH the day thy love has spared us; Now we lay us down to rest, Through the silent watches guard us, Let no foe our peace molest ; Jesus, thou our guardian be; Sweet it is to trust in thee.