Complete Poems of Edgar Allan PoeHeritage Press, 1943 - 214 pages |
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Page 151
... anapaest are enough to sus- tain my proposition about the " alternation , " & c . , without reference to feet which are assumed to exist in the Greek and Latin metres alone : for an anapaest and a dactyl may meet in the same line ; when ...
... anapaest are enough to sus- tain my proposition about the " alternation , " & c . , without reference to feet which are assumed to exist in the Greek and Latin metres alone : for an anapaest and a dactyl may meet in the same line ; when ...
Page 160
... anapaest ever employed for an iambus , or a dactyl for a trochee . These feet differ in time ; and no feet so differing can ever be legitimately used in the same line . An anapaest is equal to four short syllables — an iambus only to ...
... anapaest ever employed for an iambus , or a dactyl for a trochee . These feet differ in time ; and no feet so differing can ever be legitimately used in the same line . An anapaest is equal to four short syllables — an iambus only to ...
Page 172
... anapaest we should converse the dactyl , thus ( in 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 the land ) . In the bastard dactyl , each of the three concluding syllables being the third of long , should be accented with a small 3 beneath the syllable , and ...
... anapaest we should converse the dactyl , thus ( in 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 the land ) . In the bastard dactyl , each of the three concluding syllables being the third of long , should be accented with a small 3 beneath the syllable , and ...
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Spirits of the Dead | 14 |
A Dream | 22 |
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