Orthometry the Art of Versification And the Technicalities of Poetry With a
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Syllable in the middle of the verse ; Swift takes it very often, as here : And now my dream's out ; for I was a dream'd That I saw a huge rat O dear how I scream'd ! But this licence is questionable at least ; it may be called unwarrantable, because it occasions such halting metre. Diaeresis is a licence more suitable to this kind of verse than to the dissyllabic metres, i. E. To make a dissyllable into a trisyllable, a monosyllable into a dissyllable wherever possible, e. G. : Whose humour, as... gay as theyfr^-fly's light. Moore. Would feel herself happier here, By the nightingale warbling nigh. Cornier. Dray ton makes April three syllables. Such a division of syllables helps the line to move lightly, and is a reasonable indulgence to a measure which, more than others, is apt to suffer by the clogging of accented words and consonants. Any long or accented syllable, standing first or second in the foot, is a deviation from this measure ; but it is less offensive to the ear in the second place than in the first : 136 ORTUOMETRY.
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