Notes on Shakspere's Versification: With Appendix on the Verse Tests, and a Short Descriptiv Bibliography (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Browne, George H.

9780267810192: Notes on Shakspere's Versification: With Appendix on the Verse Tests, and a Short Descriptiv Bibliography (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Notes on Shakspere's Versification: With Appendix on the Verse Tests, and a Short Descriptiv Bibliography

Now Shakspere's Sonnets are remarkably melodious, and conform to the strictest rules of rhythm and metre. The dramatic poetry, on the other hand, The limit of trisyllabic substitution is three feet out of five. J. B. Mayor, Phil. Soc. Trans., 1875 - 76, p. 412.

T A verse may often have more than ten syllables, and more or less than five accents, but it must carry so much sound as shall be a satisfactory equivalent for ten syllables, and must have its accents arranged so as to content an ear prepared for five. - J. A. Symonds, Fort nightly Review, Dec., 1874.

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