单词 | tetrameter |
例句 | "The News" adopts a punchy tetrameter in its jolting account of endemic indifference, while "The Ruin" modified an Anglo-Saxon lament for a collapsed stronghold, imbuing the derelict remains with human presence and feeling. The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z Anapestic tetrameter is a much cheerier form of verse than its name suggests. Books of The Times: David Rakoff’s ‘Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish’ 2013-07-24T21:06:59Z It begins in boldly impressionistic, even imagistic, style, as the salient features of the scene are listed in lines of lightly-flowing tetrameter. Poem of the week: Night and Morning by Robert Browning 2013-04-22T09:10:03Z This is a variant on ballad measure, which is to say the stanza rhymes abcb and alternates tetrameter and trimeter phrasings. When Did Poetry Speak to Us? When We Were Very Young 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Those of you with more to prove will want to drop the words 'anapestic tetrameter' and call it a modern-day Canterbury Tales or even The Wasteland. Summer reads - best book to share: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff 2013-07-22T15:04:00Z The regular trochaic tetrameter of these 14 lines gives the figure of Lizzie an emblematic solidity. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 2012-06-25T11:57:22Z The majority of Giesel's best-known children's books were written from an educational standpoint, the anapestic tetrameter employed to reinforce learning via phonics, and the limited vocabulary designed to encourage early readers. Why don't Dr Seuss's books make good movies 2012-07-27T11:55:52Z Each of his modern Americans speaks, most of the time, in long speeches of alliterative tetrameter, an English form so old as to suggest firelight and the mead-hall. On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z This being so, Leithauser’s chapters cover such seemingly ho-hum subjects as iambic pentameter, iambic tetrameter, the stanza, enjambment, rhyming and wordplay. Review | Poetry matters. Two new books remind us why. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z There were monkeypods, “planted as seedlings no taller than chives,” as Mr. Merwin wrote, in impeccable dactylic tetrameter, in an essay in “What Is a Garden?,” which centers on his work in Hawaii. W.S. Merwin, Poet of Life’s Evanescence, Dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Another early write-up, from Publishers Weekly, found that the stories were "by no means gems", but do "suggest how Geisel tinkered with characters, developed his signature tetrameter, and commented on ethical issues, circa 1950". Lost Dr Seuss stories to be republished 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The former is trochaic—the latter is octameter acatalectic, alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrameter catalectic. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z Iambic tetrameter catalectic, formed of seven feet and a cæsura at the close of the line. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Archilochus made use of the iambus and the trochee, and organized them into the two forms of metre known as the iambic trimeter and the trochaic tetrameter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Often it seems to an English reader to have an anapestic effect, and to be best described as anapestic tetrameter. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History They are written in iambic tetrameter which is kept from singsongness by the action of the dialogue. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers He tends to favor the anapaest and the iambic tetrameter. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 There are four feet in each verse; so the poem is written in iambic tetrameter. English: Composition and Literature Technically the poem is anapestic tetrameter much varied by the introduction of iambic feet. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide In its highest order, the lyric or 'ode,' it is a tetrameter, the line having the time of eight iambics. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Thus Pope’s Iliad is written in iambic pentameter, in lines made up of five iambics; and Longfellow’s Hiawatha is trochaic tetrameter, each line containing four trochees. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Mrs. Johnson, furthermore, has carved out her own poetic medium, alternating two tetrameter lines with a single heptameter, a most unusual combination. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 In the same way, one decides that “The Song of Hiawatha” is written in trochaic tetrameter. English: Composition and Literature Hiawatha and Evangeline are not rhymed, the former being trochaic tetrameter and the latter largely dactylic hexameter. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The line, "The twilight hours like birds flew by," is made up of four iambic feet, and is therefore an iambic tetrameter. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism The meter of this poem, then is anapestic tetrameter, varied by an added syllable in most of the odd-numbered lines and by an iambic foot at the beginning of each line. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 The fifth, also English, is anapæstic tetrameter heavily alliterated, and mono-rhymed for eight verses, with the stanza made up to ten by a couplet on another rhyme. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) A stanza made up of tetrameter alternating with trimeter is very common. English: Composition and Literature The Greek trochaic tetrameter, similarly, contains eight trochees, the English 'trochaic tetrameter' but four. The Principles of English Versification The following line, "As unto the bow the cord is," is trochaic tetrameter, which is the meter of "Hiawatha." Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism In this poem the feet are iambic and there are four of them, consequently we name the meter of this poem iambic tetrameter. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 It frequently assumed regular stanza-forms, the lines also frequently fell into regular quantitative shapes, such as the heroic, the Alexandrine, and the tetrameter. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) A line containing four feet is called tetrameter. English: Composition and Literature Most of the experiments were performed with iambic tetrameter. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The line, "Softly the breezes descend in the valley," is dactylic tetrameter, though the last foot is a trochee. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Your Latin Ennius states my view, in some of your rather rough and blundering native tetrameters. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Dactylic verses are measured by single feet, and are designated as tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, accordingly. New Latin Grammar It is composed in triplets of rhyming trochaic tetrameters, and describes the Last Judgment in language of magnificent grandeur, passing into a plaintive plea for the souls of the dead. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin Iambic tetrameters; variations of each element from the average foot of the entire stanza. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. In its highest order, the lyric or “ode,” it is a tetrameter, the line having the time of eight iambics. The Unknown Eros A verse having four iambic feet is called iambic tetrameter. Composition-Rhetoric The poem, he explained, consists of thirteen lines in iambic tetrameter and two lines of two iambics each; in all, one line more than the sonnet's count. In Flanders Fields and Other Poems With a wise instinct he chose the old free-and-easy tetrameter, which Goethe had used with excellent effect in some of his early plays. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller For the tetrameter there is some indication in the cases of B., S. and Mc., but the other cases are negative and further evidence is needed. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. We observe here the rare rhythm, analogous to the iambic scazon, of a trochaic tetrameter with a long penultimate syllable. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The Tennysonian stanza consists of four iambic tetrameter lines in which the first line rhymes with the fourth, and the second with the third. Composition-Rhetoric The men who fought for the cause they loved expressed their love in the forming of a squadron instead of a poem, and wrote their praise of battle in fighting-lines instead of tetrameters. Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier On the other hand, the iambic and the trochaic tetrameter are stirring measures, the latter being akin to dancing, the former expressive of action. The Poetics of Aristotle A form which may fit the pentameter can be broken off early, and become a satisfactory tetrameter. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The Trochaic tetrameter and the Cretic are also favourite rhythms; the former is well suited to the Latin language, its beat being much more easily distinguishable in a rapid dialogue than that of the Iambic. 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