Rhythms Of Poetry
By Various
Tracklist
- Iambic Lines Of Five Feet (Iambic Pentameter) In Rhymed Couplets
- "But Lord Christ, When That It Remembreth Me" From "The Wife Of Bath's Prologue" (Modern Pronounciation)
- "But Lord Christ, When That It Remembreth Me" From "The Wife Of Bath's Prologue" (Original Pronounciation)
- Elizabethan Couplets
- "Now In Her Tender Arms I Sweetly Bide" From Translation Of Ovid's Amores
- "When I Am Gone, Dream Me Some Happiness" From "To His Mistress Desiring To Travel With Him As His Page"
- Augustan, Keatsian And Modern Couplets
- "She Went To Plain-Work, And To Purling Brooks" From "Epistle To Miss Blount"
- "Soft Went The Music The Soft Air Along" From Lamia
- "Tamed By Miltown We Lie On Mother's Bed" From "Man And Wife"
- Verse Of A Song In Lines Of Five Feet
- "Haste Hapless Sighs, And Let Your Burning Breath" From "Go Crystal Tears"
- Blank Verse: Unrhymed Iambic Pentameters, Elizabethan And Jacobian
- "Black Is The Beauty Of The Brightest Day" From Tamburlaine Part II
- "What Would It Pleasure Me To Have My Throat Cut" From The Duchess Of Malfi
- Milton's Blank Verse
- "Is This The Region, This The Soul, The Clime" From Paradise Lost
- Wordsworth's Blank Verse
- "Now Less In Springtime When On Southern Banks" From The Prelude
- Blank Verse In Eliot
- "I That Was Near Your Heart Was Removed Therefrom" From "Gerontion"
- Italian Verse: Eleven-Syllable Lines Alone; And With Seven Syllable Lines
- "S'io Credesse Che Mia Risposta Fosse" From Inferno
- "O Voi Che Per La Via D'Amor Passate" From La Vita Nuova
- Pentameters Together With Line Of Three Feet In English
- "I Saw My Lady Weep" - First Verse
- "Let Us Go Then, You And I" From "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock"
- Lines Of Three Feet
- "By Saint Mary My Lady" From "To Mistress Isabel Pennell"
- "First When I Cam' To The Town" From "The Lichtbob's Lassie"
- "For Nations Vague As Weed" - "Nothing To Be Said"
- Alexandrines (Lines Of Six Feet) In English
- "Up With The Jocund Lark (Too Long We Take Our Rest)" From Polyolbion
- Broken Alexandrines In French
- "Blocus Sentimental! Messageries De Levant!,,," From "L'Hiver Qui Vient"
- Lines Of Two Feet
- With Serving Still
- Iambic Lines Of Four Feet
- "There Is A Lady Sweet And Kind" (First Verse)
- Iambic Lines Of Four Feet (Continued)
- "Even Such Is Time, Which Takes In Trust" - "Epitaph"
- Trochaic Lines Of Four Feet
- "Straight Mine Eye Hath Caught New Pleasures" From "L'Allegro"
- "Lay Your Sleeping Head My Love" - First Verse Of "Lullaby"
- Trochaic Lines Of Eight Feet
- "Pange Lingua Gloriosi Proelium Certaminis" - First Verse
- "Oh The After-Tram-Ride Quiet, When We Heard A Mile Behind" From "Parliament Hill Fields"
- Iambic Lines Of Seven Feet (Fourteeneers)
- "The Damzell Ronnes As If Her Feet Were Wings. And Though That Shee" From Translation Of Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Trochaic Lines Of Seven Feet
- "Underneath A Cypress Shade The Queen Of Love Sat Mourning" (First And Last Verse)
- Anglo Saxon Stress Rhythms
- "May I For My Own Self Song's Truth Reckon" From "The Seafarer"
- "Mæg Ic Be Me Sylfum Soogied Wrecan" (Original)
- Medieval Stress Rhythms
- "In A Somer Seson Whan Soft Was The Sonne" From Piers Plowman (Modern Pronounciation)
- "In A Somer Seson Whan Soft Was The Sonne" From Piers Plowman (Original Pronounciation)
- Renaissance Verse Between Stress And Pentameter Rhythms
- "Wherewith Love To The Hart's Forest He Fleeth" From Translation Of Petracht's Sonnet "The Long Love That In My Thought Doth Harbour"
- Modern Rhythms Related To Stress Verse
- "Doom Is Dark And Deeper Than Any Sea Dingle" From "The Wanderer"
- "Listen To The Hoofbeats. Listen! Listen!" From Purgatory
- Stress Verse In Eliot
- "Midwinter Spring Is Its Own Season" From "Little Gidding"
- Medieval Song Rhythms
- "Bytuene Mershe And Averil" From "Alisoun" (c. 1300)
- "The Maidens Came" - "The Bridal Morn"
- Folksong And Ballad Rhythms
- "Clark Saunders And May Margaret" From "Clark Saunders"
- "One Morning Fair As I Took The Air" From "Blackwaterside"
- Verse Forms With Song Freedoms
- "The Owl Is Abroad, The Bat And The Toad" - "The Witches' Charm"
- Verse Forms With Song Freedoms (Continued)
- "The Night Is Chill, The Forest Bare" From "Christabel"
- "In A Coign Of The Cliff Between Lowland And Highland" From "A Forsaken Garden"
- A Song Verse In Triple Time
- "It Was Pleasant And Delightful One Mid-summers Morn" (First Verse)
- Verse With Three Syllables To The Foot
- "The Poplars Are Felled, Farewell To The Shade" From "The Poplar-Field"
- "When The Swift-Rolling Brook, Swollen Deep" - "The Storm-Wind"
- Dactylic Hexameters
- "Hic Tamen Hanc Mecum Poteras Requiescere Noctem" From "Eclogue I"
- "Rome Disappoints Me Much; I Hardly As Yet Understand, But" From Amours De Voyage
- Elegiac Couplets And Related Rhythms
- "Nunc Iuvar In Teneris Dominae Iacuisse Lacteris" From Amoures
- "When The Present Gas Latched Its Postern Behind My Tremulous Stay" From "Afterwards"
- "Kehr In Die Dürftigen Herzen Des Volks, Lebendige Schönheit" From "An Diotima"
- Modern Verse Related To Dactylic Rhythms
- "Like A Skein Of Loose Skin Blown Against A Wall" - "The Garden"
- Modern Verse Related To Dactylic Rhythms (Continued)
- "The Is The Lower Sling Swivel. And This" From "Naming Of Parts"
- Sapphics
- "Poikilóthron' Áthanat Aphródita" (First Verse)
- "When The Fierce North-Wind With Its Airy Forces" From "The Day Of Judgement"
- Sprung Rhythms
- "I Caught This Morning Morning's Minion, King-" From "The Windhover"
- Biblical Rhythms
- Book Of Psalms - "O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord" From Authorized Version, Psalm 95
- "For I Will Consider My Cat, Jeoffry" From "Jubilante Agno"
- Nineteenth Century Free Verse Forms
- "The Banks Of The Thames Are Clouded! The Ancient Porches Of Albion Are" From "Jerusalem"
- "I Sing The Body Electric"
- Some Recent Free Verse Rhythms
- "With Innocent Wide Penguin Eyes, Three" From "Bird-Witted"
- Some Recent Free Verse Rhythms (Continued)
- "Reality Is To Be Sought, Not In Concrete" - "Aesthetic"
- Some Recent Free Verse Rhythms (Continued)
- "He Said: Let's Stay Here" - "Party Piece"