| Max Kaluza - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...Coleridge's translation of Schiller's well-known distich (hexameter and pentameter) will serve as an example: In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. (Iiu Hexameter steigt des Springquells flUssige Saule. Im Pentameter drauf fallt sie melodisch herab.)... | |
| Michael Wachtel - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...why the form never became popular in English")9 uses only one substitution (indicated by italics): In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter, aye, falling in melody back. Coleridge could have come much closer to the rhythms of the original through a simple change that would... | |
| Ovid - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...Ovid explicitly rejected it at Ars ii. 683-4. 27 So in six beats . . .: so Coleridge, after Schiller: 'In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; / In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.' 29 myrtle of the sea: myrtle was associated with Venus, who was born from the sea. Aphrodite: Greek... | |
| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 1166
...alternate hexameters and pentameters (qv) is known as elegiac (qv). Coleridge illustrates this in his: — In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column...In the pentameter aye falling In melody back. The Authorized Version of the Bible furnishes a number of examples of " accidental " hexameter lines ;... | |
| Richard N. Ringler, Dick Ringler, Jónas Hallgrímsson - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...Pentameter drauf fallt sie melodisch herab" (1SWN 285) or by Coleridge's imitation of it in English: "In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, / In the pentameter aye falling in melody back" (NPE 321). In Jonas's poem (and the present translation of it) all the distichs conform to the following... | |
| Sextus Propertius - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 315
...Hexameter steight des Springquells fliissige Saule, Im Pentameter drauf fallt sie melodisch herab. In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. Allowing for the difference between the quantitative metric of Latin and the stress-based systems of... | |
| Kenneth Haynes - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 225
...separated by a caesura. It is perhaps best known in English through Coleridge's version of Schiller: In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. x ^ ^ I x ^ ^ I x ^ ^ I xx I x ^ ^ I xx x ^ ^ I x ^ ^ I x II x ^ ^ I x ^ ^ I x It is the metre of Ovid's... | |
| John Frow - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 192
...dactylic feet followed by a broken pentameter of twice two-and-a-half feet built around a sharp caesura: In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter aye falling in melody back a line which, as Potts puts it, 'offers an opportunity for many sorts of doubling phrase to secure... | |
| Paula R. Backscheider - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...aspect."13 The standard illustration of the meter is Coleridge's translation of Schiller's couplet: "In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, / In the pentameter aye [ever] falling in melody back."14 By the seventeenth century, English poets had come to prefer and... | |
| Nathaniel Tarn - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...metrical considerations by letting Coleridge stand here by himself, in his translation from Schiller: In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column In the pentameter aye falling in melody back This underlines the lyrical thrust of the hexameter, pulled back, each time in the distich, by the... | |
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