The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and miscellaniesAMS Press, 1979 |
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... foot composed of a part of a word ( " dictively ; " ) and a foot composed of a word and a part of a word ( " ever vin . " ) And now , in our supposititious progress , we have gone so far as to exhaust all the essentialities of verse ...
... foot composed of a part of a word ( " dictively ; " ) and a foot composed of a word and a part of a word ( " ever vin . " ) And now , in our supposititious progress , we have gone so far as to exhaust all the essentialities of verse ...
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... foot ; and our Prosodies admit such ; but with impropriety ; for common sense would dictate that every so obvious division of a poem as is made by a line , should include within itself all that is necessary for its own comprehension ...
... foot ; and our Prosodies admit such ; but with impropriety ; for common sense would dictate that every so obvious division of a poem as is made by a line , should include within itself all that is necessary for its own comprehension ...
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... foot would be thus , ( in the rain . ) In the bastard trochee , we should converse the bastard iambus thus , ( many a . ) In the quick trochee , each of the three concluding syllables , being the sixth of long , should be accented ...
... foot would be thus , ( in the rain . ) In the bastard trochee , we should converse the bastard iambus thus , ( many a . ) In the quick trochee , each of the three concluding syllables , being the sixth of long , should be accented ...
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