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-10_Rhythm.htm

Rhythm    Two Factors in Poetic Rhythm   If your purpose is to acquire not only metrical skill but the sense and the power of…

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-11_English Metres.htm

English Metres   Octosyllabic Metre   The regular octosyllabic metre is at once the easiest to write and the most difficult to justify by a…

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-12_Greek and Latin Classical Metres.htm

Greek and Latin Classical Metres   Acclimatisation of Classical Metres in English   In the attempt to acclimatise the classical scansions in English, everything depends…

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-13_Quantitative Metre in English and Bengali.htm

Quantitative Metre in English and Bengali   English Quantitative Verse -Rhythm in English and Bengali   There have been attempts to write in English quantitative…

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-14_Metrical Experiments in Bengali.htm

Metrical Experiments in Bengali   New Metres in Bengali   Of course, Prabodh Sen is right. I suppose what Buddhadev means is that none of…

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-15_Rhyme.htm

Rhyme   Rhyme and Inspiration   Some rhyme with ease ―others find a difficulty. The coming of the rhyme is a part of the inspiration…

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-16_English Poetic Forms.htm

English Poetic Forms   The Sonnet ―Regular and Irregular Rhyme Schemes   The two regular sonnet rhyme-sequences are (1) the Shakespearean ab ab cd cd…

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-17_Substance, Style, Diction.htm

Substance, Style, Diction   Form and Substance   On the general question [of rhythm vs. substance] the truth seems to me to be very simple….

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-18_Grades of Perfection in Poetic Style.htm

Grades of Perfection in Poetic Style   Grades of Perfection in Poetry   I suppose “inevitability of expression” consists of two things producing one effect:…

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-19_Examples of Grades of Perfection in Poetic Style.htm

Examples of Grades of Perfection in Poetic Style   Examples from Classical and Mediaeval Writers   Would you please tell me where in Homer the…

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