The Speaking of English Verse

abdominal accent Accentual Verse achieved action actor artistic audible audience ballad beat beauty breath cadence Chapter character chaunt chest child consonants dancing delight diction dramatic dramatic verse duration elements emotional epic epic poetry example exercise expression force formation French G. K. CHESTERTON give Greek hear inspiration J. W. MACKAIL language logical lyric poetry lyric verse marked meaning Merchant of Venice metre metric metrists modern movement muscles nasal natural notes onomatopoeia passage patter song pattern pause perfect phonetic pitch play poem poet poet's practice prose prosody quantity Ralph Hodgson recognise refrain resonance result rhyme rhythm rhythmic ribs Robert Bridges ROBERT BROWNING satyric verse scansion Scene sense Shakespeare significance singer singing song sonnet spacial speaker speaking spoken standard stress syllables theatre thee things thou tion tongue true tune unstressed verse-speaking vocal tone voice vowel quality vowel sound words