The Speaking of English Verse

abdominal accent Accentual Verse achieved action actor articulation artist assonance audible audience ballad beauty breath cadence Chapter character chaunt chest child choric consonants dancing definite delight diction diphthong dramatic verse duration elements emotional English epic epic poetry exercise expression force formation French G. K. CHESTERTON give Greek hear inspiration J. W. MACKAIL logical lyric poetry lyric verse marked Merchant of Venice metric metrists modern movement muscles nasal natural never notes onomatopoeia passage patter song pattern pause perfect phonetic pitch play poem poet poet's practice prose prosody quantity Ralph Hodgson refrain resonance rhyme rhythm rhythmic ribs Robert Bridges ROBERT BROWNING satyric verse scansion Scene sense Shakespeare significance singer singing song sonnet spacial speaker speaking speech spoken standard stress syllables theatre thee things thou tion tongue true tune unstressed verse-speaking vocal tone voice vowel quality vowel sound whole words