The Speaking of English Verse

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