![]() Occurring usually between the last syllables of different lines, butīegin differently and end alike. Rhyme is a similarity of sound, combined with a difference: One of the most obvious distinctions in poetry, is that of rhyme and blank Syllables being always long, and a syllable immediately before or after the Most monosyllables, in English, are variable in quantity, and may be madeĮither long or short, as strong or weak sounds suit the sense and rhythm īut words of greater length are, for the most part, fixed, their accented Succeeding letter," that the syllable is not one of long quantity. Is either so short in its own nature, or is so "quickly joined to the Vowel sound, that occurs under the usual stress of accent or of emphasis, Occur in the shortest and feeblest syllables while, on the other hand, no Long, are those which are the most easily protracted, yet they often The open vowel sounds, which are commonly but not very accurately termed With which the syllable is uttered, whereby a greater or less portion of Supposed distinction of accent as affecting vowels in some cases andĬonsonants in others, but principally on the degree of energy or loudness Is called the long or the short sound of a vowel or diphthong, or on a The quantity of a syllable, whether long or short, does not depend on what ![]() Unaccented syllables, and unemphatical monosyllabic words. The primary accent, generally also with the secondary, as well as withĮmphasis and short quantity, as reckoned by the poets, is found only in In the construction of English verse, long quantity coincides always with In poetry, every syllable isĬonsidered to be either long or short. The quantity of a syllable, as commonly explained, is the relative Or by which it is particularly distinguished. Numbers or, the kind of metre, measure, or movement, of which it consists, The rhythm of verse is its relation of quantities the modulation of its Harmony, by a due succession of poetic feet, or of syllables differing in Some determinate length and rhythm-language so ordered as to produce Verse, in opposition to prose, is language arranged into metrical lines of Is called verse that is, poetry, or poetic numbers. ![]() ![]() Versification is the forming of that species of literary composition which ![]()
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