10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DECASYLLABIC»
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decasyllabic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Spenser Encyclopedia
decasyllabic verse, both lyric and narrative, in the last quarter of the fifteenth
century and the beginning of the sixteenth. One of them, Gavin Douglas,
translated Virgil's Aeneid into decasyllabic couplets, a version that influenced
Surrey's ...
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vedic metre in its histortical development
consist almost exclusively of decasyllabic verses of their respective types, and
have comparatively few irregularities of any other kind : it is therefore unlikely that
they are earlier than the strophic period. In recording variations belonging to ...
3
Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse
If that attention is used properly, I am quite certain that not only decasyllabic lines
but decasyllabic couplets, rude, and sometimes not so very rude, in English
poems before and sometimes long before Chaucer, are unmistak— able.
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Eustache Deschamps: Selected Poems
Decasyllabic, ab*ab*b*c*C*. Line 2: Mary Magdalene, a woman who followed
Jesus after he cured her of demonic possession, witnessed his crucifixion and
was among the first to bear witness to his empty tomb. The medieval idiom faire
la ...
Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, Ian S. Laurie,
2003
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Hearing the Measures: Shakespearean and Other Inflections
ditional decasyllabic poetry, or in Chaucer, but some of them go beyond the
bounds of normal variation and, especially in prolific combination, produce a line
that at least seems to require special description. In my view, the truth about
Wyatt's ...
George Thaddeus Wright,
2001
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The Song of Roland; Formulaic Style and Poetic Craft
poem hemistichs hemistichs hemistichs date versification Buevon 7762 1187 15
1269-1285 dodecasyllabic Eneas 5390 953 16 1150-1160 octosyllabic
Alexandre 1614 277 17 1150 decasyllabic Pelerinage 1740 402 23 1100
dodecasyllabic ...
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Phantom Sentences: Essays in Linguistics and Literature ...
We can assume that DECASYLLABIC is another attribute of line patterns, which
is in fact tautologically satisfied by every pentameter line pattern. Then, in our
formal framework, the same meter in this imaginary language may also be called
...
Robert S. Kawashima, Gilles Philippe, Thelma Sowley,
2008
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Prince Marko: The Hero of South Slavic Epics
A short pause (caesura) divides every decasyllabic verse into four and six
syllable sub-units. Each line of epic poetry is a syntactic unit ending in a pause
which stresses the end of a thought. The decasyllabic meter fully reflects the
solemn tone ...
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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
1660 (decasyllabic couplets). Other trns: John Oldmixon, Amintas, 1698 (
unrhymed octosyllables); P. B. Du Bois, Tasso's Aminta: a pastoral comedy,
Oxford 1726, nd; William Ayre, Amintas: a dramatick pastoral, [1737] (
decasyllabic couplets); ...
George Watson, Ian R. Willison,
1971
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Christine de Pizan and Medieval French Lyric
each stanza composed in decasyllabic verses with the exception of the fifth line
composed in five syllables, rhyming pattern ABABCCDD, envoi CCDD, all
feminine rhymes; 16. vv. 1502-63: octosyllabic rhyming couplets, narrative; 17. w.
Earl Jeffrey Richards,
1998
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DECASYLLABIC»
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decasyllabic is used in the context of the following news items.
Fado: Looking to the future with Camané - By David Mendonça
... the record has the air of Lisbon fado, a traditional decasyllabic fado; the other, Fado Espanhol, is a mixture of the Coimbra and Lisbon styles. «Portuguese American Journal, Mar 15»
Acts of Godfrey
... beautiful tool for sabre-toothed social comment: the pungent Augustan verse of Dryden and Pope fashioned the form to a decasyllabic gleam, ... «The Arts Desk, Jan 12»
Sixty Sonnets by Ernest Hilbert
... in colloquial prose rhythms with irregular stress patterns, yet he is able to maintain deft control through the use of mostly decasyllabic lines and off-rhymes. «Bookslut, Aug 09»