The Science of English Verse
Publisher: Reprint Services Corp
Published: 1880
Format: Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9780781237192
First sentence: PERHAPS no one will find difficulty in accepting the assertion that when formal poetry, or verse, - two terms which will be always used here as convertible, - is repeated aloud, it impresses itself upon the ear as verse only by means of certain relations existing among its component words considered purely as sounds, without reference to their associated ideas.
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