A History of English Versification

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A History of English Versification
Schipper, Jakob, 1842-1915
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in W. S. Ljmdor, Miscellanies, clxxv (ii. 649): NA)er may stdrm thy piaceful bSsom v/x.
Thou ISvely £xe f ffer whSse pure striam that miisic yesternight Pour*d/r/sh delight.
And Uft a vision for the {ye of M6rn To Idugh to scdrn, &c.
With crossed rhymes (feminine and masculine rhymes, alter- nately) this combination occurs in Mrs. Browning, A Drama of Exile (i. 12), where the scheme is a^^^b^a --^b^c '^^d^c '-'^d^, and in R. Browning, A Grammarian's Funeral (iv. 270), the formula being a^ b'-'^
...a^b -g ^5 ^ '^'a ^6 ^ "'2 » *C' § 208. Combinations of four- and two-foot lines (masculine and feminine endings) occur in Ben Jonson, Epigrams, cxx {Poets, iv. 545); iambic and anapaestic verses similarly com- bined in R. Browning, Prospice^ vi. 152.
In the same poet we have three- and two-foot iambic- anapaestic lines with the formula a -^3 ^2 ^'^a K ^'^3 Hf"^^ '2 > *" The Englishman in Italy (iv. 186): Forta^ Fortiij my beldved one.
Sit hire by my side^ On my kn/es put up bSth little fiet I I was sHrey if I tried ^ &c.


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