God moves in a mysterious way He plants his footsteps in the sea, An Alexandrine followed by a septenary that rhymes with it (POULTER'S MEASURE) is a favorite metre of some sixteenth-century poets: When Summer took in hand the Winter to assail, With force of might, and virtue great, his stormy blasts to quail. This measure, with each line broken in two, and (usually) with additional rhyme, is the SHORT METRE of hymns:— Teach me, my God and King, In all things thee to see ; To do it as for thee. OCTOSYLLABIC or eight-syllable verse (iambic). From all that dwell below the skies, Let the Redeemer's name be sung Through every land, by every tongue. In the foregoing quatrain the verses are rhymed in couplets. In many other hymns in octosyllabic verse, they are rhymed alternately. Either form is called in hymn books LONG METRE. "For the Angel of Death | spread his wings | on the blast, THE SPENSERIAN STANZA (eight iambic pentameters followed by an Alexandrine, with the scheme of rhymes ababbcbcC): – Yet to the remnants of thy splendor past As Pallas and the Muse unveil their awful lore. THE SONNET, a poem complete in exactly fourteen lines, rhymed according to one of the following schemes: (a) PETRARCHAN. Scheme of rhyme (often varied): cdcdcd abba, abbacdecde cdedce The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, In summer luxury he has never done On a lone winter evening when the frost Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills a. b. b. a. a. b. b. a. C. d. e. C. d. e. The first eight lines are called the OCTAVE, the last six the SESTET; and in the strict Petrarchan sonnet, the beginning of the sestet marks a turn in the thought. (b) SHAKSPERIAN. Scheme of rhyme (three quatrains, and a couplet which may be used for driving home the thought) ababcdcd efefgg: That time of year thou may'st in me behold In me thou seest the twilight of such day Which by and by black night doth take away, In me thou seest the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, Poetry and Music. a. b. α. b. C. d. C. d. e. f. e. f. g. g. - In even so short and bare an account of versification as this, it should be made clear that there is wide difference of opinion about the very foundation of verse. Some writers, seeing the marked likeness between verse and music, carry that likeness further than the facts appear to warrant, and strive to measure the quantity of syllables, the duration of pauses, and even the pitch, or height of tone. Most persons, however, believe that the measurement of pitch belongs to music only. Certainly the fact that a person may have a good ear for music and a bad ear for verse, or a good ear for verse and a bad ear for music, should make us shy of accepting what may be called the musical theory of verse. INDEX Abattoir, for slaughter-house, 10. Abbott, E. A., 154 n. Abbreviate, or shorten, 385. Abbreviated forms of nouns, 69–71. Abbreviation, mark of, 25. Ability, or capacity, 91. About, or around, round, 280. Above, as adjective, 290. Absolute adjectives and adverbs, 264- 265. Absolutely, absolute adverb, 264. Absorbed in, 314. Abundance, or plenty, 93. Abundant, or plentiful, 93. 66 Academy" (Syracuse), 347 n. Accent, or accentuate, 214-215. Accentuated, for sharply defined, 393. Accept, or except, 215. Acceptance, or acceptation, 71. Access, or accession, 72. Accord with, 314. Accredit, or ascribe, 211. or credit, 211. Acquiesce in, 314. Acquit of, 314. Act, or action, 72. Active or passive voice, 451-453. Ad, for advertisement, 69. Ad valorem, 12. Adaptation, principle of, in choice of Add, origin of, 385. Addison, Joseph, 69, 294, 302, 386, 405- Address, local, separated from date of Adjectives, 252-303. absolute, 264-265. as nouns, 103-105. clumsy adjective phrases, 484. of, 262-263. in -ic and -ical, 267. Admission, or admittance, 77. Admittance, or admission, 77. Adventuress, 68. Adverbs, 252-303. absolute, 264-265. between to and the infinitive, 292- double negatives, 301-302. in -ly, repetition of, 471. omitted, 300-301. or persuade, 227. Esthetics singular or plural, 59. | Affaire du cœur, for love affair, 391. Affinity between, to, or with, 314. |