This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...brief" play of the Athenian craftsmen, which ten thousand people know for one who knows its originals.1 XIX. is in octaves of sixes, the first quatrain being alternate-rhymed, the last In Memoriam fashion, and the rhyme-bond being 1358. XXIV. is in the " lengthened Burns," of which we have spoken, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...brief" play of the Athenian craftsmen, which ten thousand people know for one who knows its originals.1 XIX. is in octaves of sixes, the first quatrain being alternate-rhymed, the last In Memoriam fashion, and the rhyme-bond being 1358. XXIV. is in the " lengthened Burns," of which we have spoken, and which we have here the opportunity of contrasting with the " pure Burns," as this comes next. XXVI. begins with one of the longest alliterative-rhyme combinations, fourteen lines divided into an octave of the usual alliteratives and a sixain of three anapaests each. Then comes a batch consisting of hotch-potch metres admitting, indeed, but hardly deserving schema-tisation. These are the Passion pieces, the most popular of all, those in which the action is most important, and those in which the interlocutors are most numerous and the interlocution most subdivided--facts which explain the metrical irregularity. XXXIII. continues the same subject, but would appear to be one of the oldest of all, inasmuch as it is in almost purely alliterative metre--rhymed indeed and roughly stanzaed with bob and wheel, but very irregular in line-length, and very strongly alliterated. XXXIV., after an irregular overture, is in the ten-line (six + four) stanza; XXXVI. in the thirteen-line alliterative; XXXVIII. and XXXIX. in staves of alternately rhymed couplets, various in length. XLI. turns to quatrains of three eights, and a last line ranging from eight to four; while at the end the three first extend themselves to irregular decasyllables and sometimes into anapaestic dimeters. The description may read like a mere muddle, but it is nothing of the kind. One sees, as it were, the prosodist trying the strings and stops of the lyre of English verse, feeling their...
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