432. Definitions.-The following definitions and examples will serve to explain some things that cannot be taken up here more in detail: 1. Rhythm is the modulation of sound occasioned by the harmonious recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables. 2. Stress is another term for accent, and is used in the preceding pages, because the metrical does not always coincide with the word accent. 3. Rime (or rhyme) is the correspondence of initial or concluding sounds in two or more words. 4. End Rime is the correspondence of vowel or vowel and consonantal sounds at the ends of lines. 5. Alliterative Rime is the correspondence of letters or sounds at the beginning of two or more words, or the recurrence of the same letter in the accented syllables of verse. Ex. Out I sprang from glow to gloom: There whirled her white robe like a blossomed branch. 6. Single Rime is the correspondence of sounds in single syllables. Ex. Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep and let no more be said. 7. Double Rime is the correspondence of sounds in the last two syllables of words, the first of which is stressed. Ex. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures. 8. Triple Rime is the correspondence of sounds in three syllables, the first of which is stressed. Ex. Father all-glorious, O'er all victorious. 9. Sectional Rime is a rime within the line. Ex. We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. 10. Blank Verse is verse that is without end rime. II. A Verse is a single line of a metrical composition. 12. A Stanza is a division of a poem containing two or more verses. 13. A Couplet (or Distich) consists of two verses which rime together. Ex. There are seven pillars of Gothic mould In Chillon's dungeons deep and old. 14. The Heroic Couplet is a couplet consisting of two iambic pentameter lines, the thought of which does not run over into a following line. Ex. Loud neigh the horses o'er their heaps of corn 15. Mixed Verse is verse in which two or more kinds of meter are so intermingled that it is impossible to determine which dominates. Examples are Evangeline, Miles Standish, and parts of Sir Launfal. 16. Scansion is the process of indicating, either orally or in writing, the measures and stresses of metrical composition. Adverb: described, 27; defined, 28; Adverb: complements and adver- phrases, 33. Argumentation: described, 112. Capitals use of, 1; symbols for cor- rection of, IOI. Classics: see Literature. bial modifiers, 248; equivalents, 249; descriptive, 264. Clauses dependent, 39; as nouns, Clauses: descriptive, 267. 4I. Clearness, 57. Coherence: in the whole composi- Complements of verb, 37. Composition, Oral: nature of, 45; Coherence: means of securing in Composition, Oral: correct use of First half-year's work Description: nature of, III. Diagram, 42. Exposition: described, 112. Second half-year's work Correction of Themes: symbols used Description: oral, 257; words, 258; Exposition and description, 347. Figures of speech: descriptive, 269; First half-year's work Invention: nature of, 70. Letter Writing: nature and kinds, Literature: Sir Launfal, questions for Narration: described, III; nature of, Object, 36. |