...Prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The first example shall be of slow motion prolonged. A needless Alexandrine ends the song; That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Jbid 356. The next example is of forcible motion prolonged ! The waves behind impel the waves before,...

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...Prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The first example shall be of slow motion prolonged. A needless Alexandrine ends the song; That like a wounded snake, drags its alow length along. Ibid. 356. The next example is of forcible motion prolonged : The waves behind impel...

...* sleep;' Then at the last, and ouly couplet fraught With some uumeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags ita slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, ana know What's roundly smouth, or...

...securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er"dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motions Slow and Difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. A Rock Torn from the Brow of a Mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls,...

...following lines ? These equal syllables alone require, .• Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one d nil line. XiVa. Mel. Syr. Belly'd his sails. Shaks. Tro. and Cres. daxpuosv yi\x<ra<ra. Horn. KXautr/ysXeuf....

...securely slow ; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. ' Motion slow and difficult. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow lengthalong. A rock, torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd...

....mules securely slow ; O'erhills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motion slow and difficult, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags it slow length along, A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still jratliVing force, it smokes, and...

...but the music there. These, equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er...

...much time and care on his poems, before he ventured them out of his hands. IMITATIONS. Ver. 346. Where expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line :] From Dryden. " He creeps along with ten little words in every line, and helps out his numbers with...