. Pope's The Iliad of Homer, books I, VI, XXII, and XXIV;. hip; held with shield; frown with throne;name wTith stream; desert with heart; decreed with dead, etc. (b) In place of the couplet the triplet of three rhymes is sometimesused, 6. 322-324; 1. 355; 22. 63, 164 ; 24. 27, 84, 567, 685, 777, 972. (c) The so-called Alexandrine line of six iambic feet is occasionallyadmitted, especially to wind up impressively a poetical paragraph. Thename is seemingly derived from its use in old French epics on Alexan-der. Pope ridicules and exemplifies it thus in the Essay on Criticism: — A needless Alexan
. Pope's The Iliad of Homer, books I, VI, XXII, and XXIV;. hip; held with shield; frown with throne;name wTith stream; desert with heart; decreed with dead, etc. (b) In place of the couplet the triplet of three rhymes is sometimesused, 6. 322-324; 1. 355; 22. 63, 164 ; 24. 27, 84, 567, 685, 777, 972. (c) The so-called Alexandrine line of six iambic feet is occasionallyadmitted, especially to wind up impressively a poetical paragraph. Thename is seemingly derived from its use in old French epics on Alexan-der. Pope ridicules and exemplifies it thus in the Essay on Criticism: — A needless Alexandrine ends the songThat, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. The Alexandrine of modern French poetry, though it retains thename, is really anapaestic in movement and wholly unlike Popes 1. 8, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove;22. 276, Heavy with death it sinks, and hell receives the weight ; ; 22. 166; 24. 779, The rock forever lasts, the tears forever flow— where the rhetorical intention is
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