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... rhythm before it reaches expression in words , and that this rhythm may bring to birth the idea and the image . I observe in parenthesis that the nineteenth - century poet George Darley , one of the most musical of poets , said just the ...
... rhythm before it reaches expression in words , and that this rhythm may bring to birth the idea and the image . I observe in parenthesis that the nineteenth - century poet George Darley , one of the most musical of poets , said just the ...
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... rhythm , with three beats to the line — though of course the stress is sometimes reversed at the beginning of the line , which gives a cross - rhythm . Adieú , farewell earth's bliss ! This world uncertain ís : Fónd are life's lustful ...
... rhythm , with three beats to the line — though of course the stress is sometimes reversed at the beginning of the line , which gives a cross - rhythm . Adieú , farewell earth's bliss ! This world uncertain ís : Fónd are life's lustful ...
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... rhythm which Schubert chose when he set Shakespeare's ' Come away Death ' . Where the five - beat rising rhythm is written with a caesura , as in Pope's heroic couplets , four beats in falling rhythm often sound through it : Should such ...
... rhythm which Schubert chose when he set Shakespeare's ' Come away Death ' . Where the five - beat rising rhythm is written with a caesura , as in Pope's heroic couplets , four beats in falling rhythm often sound through it : Should such ...
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