...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 it stow length along. • Essay on Criticiim, 356. The next example is of forcible motion prolonged...

...line of a couplet, which is sometimes stretched out to twelve syllables, termed an Alexandrine line : A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. It doth well when employed to close a period with pomp and solemnity, where the subject makes that...

...sleep :" Then, at the last and only couplet, fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow : And...

...Alexandrine : " Ha mm example strengthens all his lawi, And is himself the great sublime he draws, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slaw length along /' the words of Milton respecting Satan : " He through the armed Jiles Darts his...

...pronouncing phrases and short passages that will bear it, much more rapidly than others. EXAMPLES. Slow — A needless Alexandrine ends the song', That', like a wounded snake', drags its slow length along'. First march the heavy mules securely slow', O'er hills', o'er dales', o'er crags', o'er rocks they...

...sleep :' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught 354 With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What 's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ;...

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

...sleep :' Then at the last, and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, fate and Jove had stopp'd the haron's ears. In vain Leave such to tune their own dull rhy ines,a nd know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow ;...

...they suck the substance out, Since one's sufficient to maintain A tithe of lawyers in its train. * " A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags it (low length along." Essay on Criticism. t In Carey's Present State of England, published in 1627,...

...etc. Hoje o alexandrino he só usado para diversificar os versos heróicos. Ex. A needless Alexandrino ends the song, That, like a wounded snake , drags its slow length aloug, etc. O verso de quatorze syllabas he hoje sepajado em dois versos alternados, hum de oito, e...