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Paul Fussell. introduced another , but few poets have taken to it . The Spenserian sonnet is structured essentially ... Spenser's Amoretti , we have an interesting example of a disturbing internal conflict between an essentially ...
Paul Fussell. introduced another , but few poets have taken to it . The Spenserian sonnet is structured essentially ... Spenser's Amoretti , we have an interesting example of a disturbing internal conflict between an essentially ...
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... Spenserian , the vehicle of The Faerie Queene . The stanza consists of eight iambic - pentameter lines rhyming ababbcbc and a final alexandrine rhyming c . Spenser perhaps contrived the stanza by adding the final rhyming alex- andrine ...
... Spenserian , the vehicle of The Faerie Queene . The stanza consists of eight iambic - pentameter lines rhyming ababbcbc and a final alexandrine rhyming c . Spenser perhaps contrived the stanza by adding the final rhyming alex- andrine ...
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Paul Fussell. peated basic pattern . During the eighteenth century a vogue of Spenserian imitation resulted in several pseudo - Spenserian poems such as Shenstone's " The Schoolmistress " and Thomson's " The Castle of In- dolence , " and ...
Paul Fussell. peated basic pattern . During the eighteenth century a vogue of Spenserian imitation resulted in several pseudo - Spenserian poems such as Shenstone's " The Schoolmistress " and Thomson's " The Castle of In- dolence , " and ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
Copyright | |
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