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Mem: for Philadelphia.
French Reviews at
Athenæum.
>>Review in Courier.<< Courier with Raven.
Grotesque &
Ar.
Grahams with my life. Feb. 45
Ligeia.
Dollar Newsp. With New-Year's Address.
Epig. In "Graham"
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Versification
— about no treastises on Eng. Verse. Everett
— accent is simply time. It may be said that it
is a more forcible
enunciation; but it amounts to the same thing; for, either it is the
duplicate
time wh. [[which]] causes the force; or the force which gives the dup.
Time.
— why there are no feet of more than 3 syllables. —
accent. Introduce
amphibrach — give first line of "Ulalume" as specimen.
— Hexameter — what causes the tripping or dactylic
character of our
verse — monosyllables short generally not always — shortness
depends
upon the importance of a word's meaning as well as upon its diff. Of
enunciation.
Thus "should" is short because unimportant — auxiliary —
although
dif. Of syllabification. Aux verbs & preps: short — none of these
in
Greek or Latin. Greeks not only had 10 natural spondees to our one;
but,
owing to inflection (tense & case) making final syllables empathic,
were able to make innumerable artificial spondees out of the end of one
word & the beginning of another.
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Evangeline.
Do tell | when shall we | make common | sense
men | out of the
| >>owl-eyed<< | pundits
<Out> of >>The<< >>Frog-faced<< | stupid
old | God-born
| Pundits who | lost in a | fog-bank |
Strut about | all along | shore there | somewhere | close by the |
Down East
<Frog> >>Duck<< Pond | munching of | pea nuts and |
pumpkins
and | buried in | big-wigs |
Why ask | who ever | yet saw | money made | out of a | fat old
Jew or | downright | upright | nutmegs | out of a | pine-knot |
[back:]
Schiller accounts for the elegiac stanza thus:
Im Hexameter steigt des Spring-quells
flüssige Saüle
—
Im Pentameter drauf fallt sie melodisch herab —
Coleridge without acknowledgment translates it thus —
In the Hexameter rises the fountain's silvery
column
In the Pentameter are falling in melody back
A System of English versific. contg. [[containing]] "Rules for the
structure
of the different kinds of Verse. by Erastus Everett A. M. April 1848"
"All rules for the structure of English verse must be
drawn from the
standard poets & not laid down à priori
"The ignorance prevalent on this >>topic<< subj. even
among
men of consid. [[considerable]] pretense to crit. [[critical]] acumen
is
really aston. [[astonishing]]
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