Notes on Shakspere's Versification : With Appendix on the Verse Tests, and a Short Descriptiv Bibliography (Classic Reprint)

George H. Browne

ISBN 10: 1330547993 / ISBN 13: 9781330547991

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2015

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• Titolo: Notes on Shakspere's Versification : With Appendix on the Verse Tests, and a Short Descriptiv Bibliography (Classic Reprint)
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1330547993
• ISBN 13: 9781330547991
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Hervorragend
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Now Shakspere's Sonnets are remarkably melodious, and conform to the strictest rules of rhythm and metre. The dramatic poetry, on the other hand, The limit of trisyllabic substitution is three feet out of five. J. B. Mayor, Phil. Soc. Trans., 1875 - 76, p. 412.

T A verse may often have more than ten syllables, and more or less than five accents, but it must carry so much sound as shall be a satisfactory equivalent for ten syllables, and must have its accents arranged so as to content an ear prepared for five. - J. A. Symonds, Fort nightly Review, Dec., 1874.

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