Complete Poems of Edgar Allan PoeHeritage Press, 1943 - 214 pages |
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Page 160
... iambus , or a dactyl for a trochee .... In the beginning of a line a trochee is often used for an iambus . " Blending is the plain English for synaeresis - but there should be no blending ; neither is an anapaest ever employed for an ...
... iambus , or a dactyl for a trochee .... In the beginning of a line a trochee is often used for an iambus . " Blending is the plain English for synaeresis - but there should be no blending ; neither is an anapaest ever employed for an ...
Page 171
... iambus , bastard trochee , and quick trochee , as I have been at some pains in describing these feet above . All the Prosodies on English verse would insist upon making an elision in " flowers , " thus " flow'rs , " but this is nonsense ...
... iambus , bastard trochee , and quick trochee , as I have been at some pains in describing these feet above . All the Prosodies on English verse would insist upon making an elision in " flowers , " thus " flow'rs , " but this is nonsense ...
Page 172
... iambus , is , in the bastard , spread equally over two syllables , which are accord- ingly the fourth of long . But this fact - the fact of the essentiality , or whole time , of the foot being unchanged - is now so fully before the ...
... iambus , is , in the bastard , spread equally over two syllables , which are accord- ingly the fourth of long . But this fact - the fact of the essentiality , or whole time , of the foot being unchanged - is now so fully before the ...
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The Editors Commentary | 2 |
Spirits of the Dead | 14 |
The Happiest Day the Happiest Hour | 21 |
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Aaraaf accented Al Aaraaf ALESSANDRA amid anapaest angels Annabel Lee BALDAZZAR beauty bells beneath bird breath bright caesura CASTIGLIONE catalectic chamber door dactyl death dream dwell Earth Edgar Allan Poe effect equality eternal eyes fair fancy feel feet flowers foot Frances Sargent Osgood Greek happy hast hath heart Heaven hexameter hope hour iambus idea Israfel JACINTA lake LALAGE Ligeia light lines lone long syllable maiden melancholy melody moon never Nevermore night o'er odors passion pleasure Poe's Poems of Edgar poet poetical poetry POLITIAN Prosodies Raven rhyme rhythm Sarah Elmira Royster scansion shadow short syllables skies sleep smile soul sound speak spirit spondee stanza star strange sweet Tamerlane tears thee thine things thou art thought thro throne tion tone trochaic trochee true truth Ulalume verse versification voice wild wind wing word young