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The Rhymester, or the Rules of Rhyme; A Guide to English Versification. with a Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque, Comic Verse, and Song-Writing

The Rhymester, or the Rules of Rhyme; A Guide to English Versification. with a Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque, Comic Verse, and Song-Writing


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. VERSE GENERALLY. 'pHERE is no better text for this chapter than some -- lines from Pope's Essay on Criticism: But most by numbers judge a poet's song, ' And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong: These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire; 5 While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still recurring rhymes; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze, ' 10 In the next line it ' whispers through the trees': If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep, ' The reader's threaten'd?not in vain?with ' sleep.' Then at the last and only cpuplet, fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, 15 A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, to know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow; And praise the easy vigor of a line 20 Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. Pis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 25 Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar; When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, 30 The line, too, labors, and the words move slow. Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Johnson sneers somewhat at the attempt at what he styles representative meter. He quotes one of the mo...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217105149
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 42
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217105149
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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