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Gradually there were added to these psalter choir-books additions in the form of antiphons, responses, collects or short prayers, for the use of those not skilful at improvisation and metrical compositions.
It should be simple and metrical in form, genuinely emotional, poetic and literary in style, spiritual in quality, and in its ideas so direct and so immediately apparent as to unify a congregation while singing it ".
" In a review of H. D. Traill's analysis of Coleridge in the " English Men of Letters ", an anonymous reviewer wrote in 1885 Westminster Review: " Of ' Kubla Khan ,' Mr. Traill writes: ' As to the wild dream-poem ' Kubla Khan ,' it is hardly more than a psychologial curiosity, and only that perhaps in respect of the completeness of its metrical form.
Williams commented that the ' variable foot ' was a metrical device to resolve the conflict between form and freedom in verse.
In 1922 he published English Metres, a study of poetic metrical form, and he compiled critical editions of Cynewulf's Juliana, several works of Dryden, James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, and several Shakespearean plays.
In form, the poems are metrical and mostly rhymed, using both traditional and individual forms, several alluding to a wide range of Swedish and Nordic poetry, such as e. g. the Finnish Kalevala.
Simonides, the uncle of Bacchylides, was another strong influence on his poetry, as for example in his metrical range, mostly dactylo-epitrite in form, with some Aeolic rhythms and a few iambics.
Some poets, like Pindar extended the metrical forms to a triad, including strophe, antistrophe ( metrically identical to the strophe ) and epode ( whose form does not match that of the strophe ).
The most specialized form of chanting is called yang, which is without metrical timing and is dominated by resonant drums and sustained, low syllables.
In medieval Latin, while verse in the old quantitative meters continued to be written, a new more popular form called the sequence arose, which was based on accentual metres in which metrical feet were based on stressed syllables rather than vowel length.
This second quotation does not contain several statements usually attributed to Arius by his opponents, is in metrical form, and resembles other passages that have been attributed to Arius.
In Book II, " Of Proportion Poetical ," Puttenham compares metrical form to arithmetical, geometrical, and musical pattern.
However, Cowley misunderstood Pindar's metrical practice and therefore his reproduction of the Pindaric Ode form in English does not accurately reflect Pindar's poetics.
With regard to the form of the poem, Rutilius handles the elegiac couplet with great metrical purity and freedom, and betrays many signs of long study in the elegiac poetry of the Augustan era.
Huygens ' style was bright and vivacious and he was a consummate artist in metrical form.
A later sophist who wrote one of the only remaining accounts of these great orators in his Lives of the Sophists, Philostratus describes Asianism as a form that “… aims at but never achieves the grand style .” He adds that its style is more, “ flowery, bombastic, full of startling metaphors, too metrical, too dependent on the tricks of rhetoric, too emotional .” This type of rhetoric is also sometimes referred to as “ Ionian ” and “ Ephesian ”, because it came from outside of Athens.
The poem is divided into 133 cantos ( including the prologue and epilogue ), and in contrast to its constant and regulated metrical form, encompasses many different subjects: profound spiritual experiences, nostalgic reminiscence, philosophical speculation, Romantic fantasizing and even occasional verse.
It is generally agreed that it is written in stylized poetry and in a partly metrical form containing a protection for the grave and the description of a funerary rite.
* an edition of Much Ado about Nothing, " now first published in fully recovered metrical form " ( 1884 )--( the author held that all the plays were originally written in blank verse )
It allows the development of a form of constructive real analysis using topological rather than metrical arguments.
The most popular metrical forms are the Cywydd, of 14th century origin, and the several versions of the Englyn, a concise and allusive verse form similar to the Greek epigram and the Japanese haiku and as old as Welsh literature itself.
This is the maintenance of the older pre-1870 approach to public worship among Presbyterians in which the 150 psalms of the Word of God in metrical form were exclusively used, and without instrumental accompaniment.
The last line of the book " And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea " is also in metrical form ; almost but not quite an anapestic tetrameter.
Characteristic for this kind of literature is that it is written in metrical form and is governed by a set of strict conventions.
Horace, whose career crossed the divide between republic and empire, followed Catullus ' lead in employing Greek lyrical forms, identifying with Alcaeus of Mytilene, composing Alcaic stanzas, and also with Archilochus, composing poetic invectives in the Iambus tradition ( in which he adopted the metrical form of the Epode or ' Iambic Distich ').

metrical and Monk's
This metrical style gives an elevated, spacious tone to the Monk's Tale that is not always evidenced in the diction.

metrical and is
The acute and grave accents are occasionally used in poetry and lyrics: the acute to indicate stress overtly where it might be ambiguous ( rébel vs. rebél ) or nonstandard for metrical reasons ( caléndar ), the grave to indicate that an ordinarily silent or elided syllable is pronounced ( warnèd, parlìament ).
The Homeric poems arrange words in the line so that there is an interplay between the metrical ictus — the first long syllable of each foot — and the natural, spoken accent of words.
Balancing these two considerations is what eventually leads to rules regarding the correct placement of the caesura and breaks between words ; in general, word breaks occur in the middle of metrical feet, while accent and ictus coincide only near the end of the line.
In the following example of Ennius's early Latin hexameter composition, metrical weight (" ictus ") falls on the first and last syllables of certabant ; the ictus is therefore opposed to the natural stress on the second syllable when the word is pronouned.
Similarly, the second syllable of the words urbem and Romam carry the metrical ictus even though the first is naturally stressed in typical pronunciation.
Hexameter is a metrical line of verse consisting of six feet.
In poetry, a monometer is a line of verse with just one metrical foot, exemplified by this portion of Robert Herrick's " Upon His Departure Hence ":
A poem with lines of absolutely minimal metrical length is:
It is assumed that they were initially sung to any suitable tune that fitted the metre ( rhythm ), most probably to sixteenth or seventeenth century metrical psalm tunes.
Lines may serve other functions, particularly where the poem is not written in a formal metrical pattern.
The defining characteristic of ragtime music is a specific type of syncopation in which melodic accents occur between metrical beats.
Traditionally, English poets employ iambic pentameter when writing sonnets, but not all English sonnets have the same metrical structure: the first sonnet in Sir Philip Sidney's sequence Astrophel and Stella, for example, has 12 syllables: it is iambic hexameters, albeit with a turned first foot in several lines.
The Aeneid, like other classical epics, is written in dactylic hexameter: each line consists of six metrical feet made up of dactyls ( one long syllable followed by two short syllables ) and spondees ( two long syllables ).
Prose lacks the more formal metrical structure of verse that is almost always found in traditional poetry.
Some works of prose do contain traces of metrical structure or versification and a conscious blend of the two literature formats is known as prose poetry.
Simek's argument is supported by a statistical analysis in the same academic newsletter of the small corpus of poetic usages, which suggests that the term Vanir was a " suspended archaism " used as a metrical alternative to Æsir.
In all such poetry the fundamental formal feature is the repetition of a metrical pattern larger than a verse or distich.
A metronome is any device that produces regular, metrical ticks ( beats, clicks ) — settable in beats per minute.
In poetry, a dimeter is a metrical line of verse with two feet.
In poetry, a dimeter is a line of two metrical feet.
However, excessive use of the device where the emphasis is unnecessary or even unintended, especially for the sake of rhyme or metre, is usually considered a flaw ; consider the clumsy versification of Sternhold and Hopkins's metrical psalter:
In the first book of his satires ( Poeticall ), he attacks the writers whose verses were devoted to licentious subjects, the bombast of Tamburlaine and tragedies built on similar lines, the laments of the ghosts of the Mirror for Magistrates, the metrical eccentricities of Gabriel Harvey and Richard Stanyhurst, the extravagances of the sonneteers, and the sacred poets ( Southwell is aimed at in " Now good St Peter weeps pure Helicon, And both the Mary's make a music moan ").

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