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As compared with unrhymed verse, the pause is in general decidedly shorter.
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Verse pauses in unrhymed stanzas, together with the foot pause within the verse.
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There are as wide, isolated variations as in the case of unrhymed material.
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Title: Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse
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A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse
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Tennyson's 'O Swallow, Swallow' in The Princess is in unrimed triplets.
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It consists of five unrimed stanzas, all but one ending with an emphatic 'Thou big thing'.
Usage of rhymeless in English
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My dreams, if dreams they may be called, were rhymeless and reasonless.
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We wish him continuing tenure, and never a rhymeless day.
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A rhymeless opening line this time ends on the word "heart".
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Rather are they making it-rough, virile, formless, rhymeless.
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The more careful reader will note the great aid given to a rhymeless metre by alliteration.
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Behold the floor of rhymeless rock, where time
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Solemnity is the essence here, not of artificial ceremony nor of rhymeless chant,-ratherof prehistoric hymn.
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Inspiration could not save Keats from his Cockney rhymes nor Mrs. Browning from her rhymeless rhymes.
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I shall but poorly render this curse by a rhymeless translation, and yet I am tempted to give it:
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Ever in the train of princes and gallant adventurers, they chanted their rhymeless verse for the encouragement and solace of heroes.
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This literary autocrat praised Bodmer's translation of 'Paradise Lost' more than the original poem, in which he condemned the rhymeless metre.
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I even had a play in hand which treated of the fate of the troubadour Bernard de Ventadours in rhymeless, irregular verse.
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Here is an attempt to translate its three rhymeless stanzas into prose; but the childish sweetness of the patois original is lost:-
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The shock of Frederic's military successes made him suddenly drop the pen with which he had been inditing Anacreontics, and weak, rhymeless Horatian moods.
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My dreams, if dreams they may be called, were rhymeless and reasonless.
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We wish him continuing tenure, and never a rhymeless day.