The Rationale of Verse PDF Edgar Allan Poe

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The idea, first, of curtailing, and, secondly, of defining the length of, a sequence, would thus at once have arisen. Here then is the line, or verse proper.1 The principle of equality being constantly at the bottom of the whole process, lines would naturally be made, in the first instance, equal in the number of their feet; in the second instance, there would be variation in the mere number: one line would be twice as long as another; then one would be some less obvious multiple of another; then still less obvious proportions would be adopted; – nevertheless there would be proportion, that is to say, a phase of equality, still.

Lines being once introduced, the necessity of distinctly defining these lines to the ear (as yet written verse does not exist), would lead to a scrutiny of their capabilities at their terminations: – and now would spring up the idea of equality in sound betwee

• Book Name: The Rationale of Verse pdf
• Author Name Edgar Allan Poe
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2010

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