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...line the number of accentuated words, not the number of syllables. ' Though the latter,' he says, ' echen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O for a draug This irregular harmony delighted both Scott and Byron, by whom it was imitated. We add a brief specimen...

...by a syllable is called catalectic or deficient; as — Meadows trim with daisies pied. — MILTON. seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be found to be only four ; " as — "Tis the middle of night by the castle clock, And the owls have awakened the crowing cock...

...Coleridge in his " Christabel " struck out what he considered a new metre, which he describes as " not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem...each line the accents will be found to be only four." This was a decided step in the right direction, being in truth a recognition of the principle that...

...only to add, that the metre of the Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular., though it inny seem so from its being founded on a new principle;...in number of syllables is not introduced wantonly, nr for the mere ends of convenience, but in correspondence with some transition, in the nature of the...

...The metre of Christabel," he says, " is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from being founded on a new principle, namely that of counting in each line the accents, not the syllables." The Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries produced no poets of .high order, while in the great pulpit...

...its bcintf founded on a new principle; namely, that of counting in each lino the accents, not tin; syllables. Though the latter may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line tho acceuta will lie found to be only four. Nevertheless this occasional variation in number of syllables...

...friend ! for I Am the poorer of the two. . I have only to add, that the metre of the Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem...principle, namely, that of counting in each line the aecents, not the syllables. Though the latter may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents...

...poorer of the two. I have only to add, that the metre of the Christabelis not, properly speaking1, irregular, though it may seem so from its being founded...occasional variation in number of Syllables is not ratroduced wantonly, or for the mere ends of convenience, but in correspondence with some transition,...

...Coleridge, in his " Christabel," struck out what he considered a new meter, which he describes as " not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem...each line the accents will be found to be only four." This was a decided step in the right direction, being in truth a recognition of the principle that...