The Science of English Verse
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780548071281
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry
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.