"Unrhymed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... refined appreciation of verse, "in giving," as he says, "a sort of rhythmical arrangement to the lyrical parts," his object being "to convey some notion of the variety of versification which forms one great charm of the poem." A literal translation is always possible in the unrhymed passages; but even here Mr. Hayward's ear did not dictate to him the necessity of preserving the ...
— Faust • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
... — N. prose, prose writer. prosaicism[obs3], prosaism[obs3], prosaist[obs3], proser[obs3]. V. prose. write prose, write in prose. Adj. prosal[obs3],prosy, prosaic; unpoetic, unpoetical[obs3]. rhymeless[obs3], unrhymed, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... rhymes for each stanza, and the difficulty of disposing of the fourth line, which, if made to rhyme with the fourth line of the next stanza, produces an awkwardness in the case of those Odes which consist of an odd number of stanzas (a large proportion of the whole amount), if left unrhymed, creates an obviously disagreeable effect. We come then to the other alternative, the stanza with alternate rhymes. Here the question is about the fourth line, which may either consist of six syllables, like Coleridge's Fragment, "O leave the lily on its stem," or of ...
— Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace • Horace
... them are written in a form of her own invention, the "cinquain" (five unrhymed lines, having two, four, ...
— Contemporary American Literature - Bibliographies and Study Outlines • John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert |
