Excerpt from A Brief Extract of a New English Prosody: Based Upon the Laws of English Rhythm For this foreign prosody will do no more than note the number of rhythm waves in a line of English verse and their general character as rising or falling, single or double. All the lines of a poem like Paradise Lost will thus appear to be practically the same, and we can only talk about the splendid organ music of Milton's verses without being able to describe in our notation the rhythm ic details of a single one of them. Under ...
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Excerpt from A Brief Extract of a New English Prosody: Based Upon the Laws of English Rhythm For this foreign prosody will do no more than note the number of rhythm waves in a line of English verse and their general character as rising or falling, single or double. All the lines of a poem like Paradise Lost will thus appear to be practically the same, and we can only talk about the splendid organ music of Milton's verses without being able to describe in our notation the rhythm ic details of a single one of them. Under such circumstances it is hardly to be wondered that English poetry makes but weak appeal to the modern reader who does not happen to have a strong native feel ing for speech rhythm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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