Mr. Locock speaks of line 124 as ‘a rhymeless line.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
Congress does what it does sometimes in seemingly rhymeless, reasonless fashion. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2004] Reference
His cries of discovery ran like a tuneless, rhymeless trailsong through what would have been a silent journey were it left to Tyorl to provide conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Stormblade]
The song is constructed by re- recording the rhymeless dialogue of Thatcher and Burke with singing, albeit unmelodic voices; the result is akin to an operetta. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-22] Reference
Mr. Locock speaks of line 124 as 'a rhymeless line. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference
Rather are they making it -- rough, virile, formless, rhymeless. From Wordnik.com. [The French in the Heart of America] Reference
My dreams, if dreams they may be called, were rhymeless and reasonless. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacket (Star-Rover)] Reference
Wagner's "recurring theme" true music, nor Whitman's rhymeless lines poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters] Reference
The more careful reader will note the great aid given to a rhymeless metre by alliteration. From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
Phoenix, and this rhymeless song, in its old native flow, may yet find some grace in the modern ear. From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
He makes many experiments, one of the strangest being the introduction of rhymeless lines at regular intervals. From Wordnik.com. [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference
I even had a play in hand which treated of the fate of the troubadour Bernard de Ventadours in rhymeless, irregular verse. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Lily and Other Stories] Reference
Part of it is written in blank verse, or at least in rhymeless lines; so that after all it probably followed in the wake of. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Shakespeare] Reference
Alexandrine, for the discarding of which from the serious drama we are in every respect indebted to him, but the rhymeless Iambic. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature] Reference
Ever in the train of princes and gallant adventurers, they chanted their rhymeless verse for the encouragement and solace of heroes. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
Here is an attempt to translate its three rhymeless stanzas into prose; but the childish sweetness of the patois original is lost. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference
As the Arabs ignore blank verse, when we come upon a rhymeless couplet we know that it is an extract from a longer composition in monorhyme. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
But the time was at hand, rhymeless and reasonless so far as I can see, when I was to begin to pay for my score of years of dallying with John. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
This literary autocrat praised Bodmer's translation of 'Paradise Lost' more than the original poem, in which he condemned the rhymeless metre. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5] Reference
The characteristics of Shakespeare's blank verse -- the rhymeless, iambic five-stress (decasyllabic) verse, or iambic pentameter, introduced into. From Wordnik.com. [The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar] Reference
Even in stately, rhymeless decasyllabics the march and music of the verse help a limping thought along like a sore-footed soldier striding to the band. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
It was a young poet, a poet rhymeless and inarticulate, who huddled behind the shield of untrimmed currant bushes, and thought of the girl he would never see again. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
As I write this, all the beings and happenings of that other world rise up before me in vast phantasmagoria, and I know that to you they would be rhymeless and reasonless. From Wordnik.com. [Before Adam] Reference
The verse in all his plays is generally the rhymeless Iambic of ten or eleven syllables, occasionally only intermixed with rhymes, but more frequently alternating with prose. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature] Reference
He saw a fire in his disciples 'eyes, "-- conducts us to two other fine, though rhymeless, dirges. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold] Reference
Southey, use of rhymeless metre by, 11. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold] Reference
Mrs. Browning from her rhymeless rhymes. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
And revelled in the rapture of rhymeless reason. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth] Reference
“Behold the floor of rhymeless rock, where time. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
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