Complete Poems of Edgar Allan PoeHeritage Press, 1943 - 214 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 4
Page 163
... bastard " foot of the rhythm intended . For example : Many a thought will come to | memory . | Here many a is what I have explained to be a bastard trochee , and to be understood should be accented with inverted crescents . It is ...
... bastard " foot of the rhythm intended . For example : Many a thought will come to | memory . | Here many a is what I have explained to be a bastard trochee , and to be understood should be accented with inverted crescents . It is ...
Page 172
... bastard , spread equally over two syllables , which are accord- ingly the fourth of long . But this fact the fact of ... bastard dactyl , each of the three concluding syllables being the third of long , should be accented with a small 3 ...
... bastard , spread equally over two syllables , which are accord- ingly the fourth of long . But this fact the fact of ... bastard dactyl , each of the three concluding syllables being the third of long , should be accented with a small 3 ...
Page 179
... bastard dactyl ( pulverem O ) ; but because the books had no conception of a bastard dactyl , they knocked it on the head at once - by cutting off its tail ! 3 3 3 Let me now give a specimen of the true scansion of another Hora- tian ...
... bastard dactyl ( pulverem O ) ; but because the books had no conception of a bastard dactyl , they knocked it on the head at once - by cutting off its tail ! 3 3 3 Let me now give a specimen of the true scansion of another Hora- tian ...
Contents
The Editors Commentary | 2 |
Spirits of the Dead | 14 |
A Dream | 22 |
Copyright | |
15 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aaraaf accented Al Aaraaf ALESSANDRA anapaest angels Annabel Lee BALDAZZAR bastard iambus bastard trochee Beauty bells bird caesura CASTIGLIONE catalectic chamber door Clemm dactyl death didst dream dwell Edgar Allan Poe effect English equality excitement eyes fair fancy feel feet flowers foot Frances Sargent Osgood grammars Greek happy hath heart Heaven hexameter iambic idea Israfel JACINTA LALAGE length Lenore light lines lone long syllable maiden melancholy melody metre moon never Nevermore night o'er passion pleasure Poe's Poems of Edgar poet Poetic Principle poetical poetry POLITIAN Prosodies quick trochee Quoth the Raven rhyme rhythm Sarah Elmira Royster scansion sense shadow short syllables smile soul sound speak spirit spondaic spondee stanza star sweet tears thee thine thing thou art thought thro throne tion tone trochaic true Truth unto verse versification voice wild wind wings word ye the land