The book Chapters On English Metre was written by author Mayor, Joseph B. (Joseph Bickersteth), 1828-1916 Here you can read free online of Chapters On English Metre book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Chapters On English Metre a good or bad book?
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This is acknowledged by Dr Guest and Dr Abbott, but Mr Ellis would treat all such cases under the head of trisyllabic feet. I observe in the passage from M. Gaston Paris, printed in the Appendix, that two of the four types of the old French deca- syllabic metre are what he calls feminine at the hemistich. I make twenty-five lines in Macbeth with the superfluous syllable after the second foot, and thirty-two with it after the third foot. In almost all there is a full stop after the superfluous s...yllable, which makes it more difficult to join it with what follows, so as to form a trisyllabic foot. In several instances, however, it would be possible to get rid of the superfluous syllable on the principle of slurring, of which I shall shortly speak. Thus several end in r and s, which have a tendency to obscure the sound of a preceding vowel, e.g. I. 7. 26. Of his I own chamb'r | and used | their ve|ry dag(gers. II. 3. 138. Of treajs'nous mal'ce | . And so | do I | . So all | . Superfluous after second foot: I.
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