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Historical Manual of English Prosody

Note 126 — Chapter VI · THE LAST STAGE—TENNYSON TO SWINBURNE

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As a | star feels | the sun | and fal|ters, Touched to | death by | divin|er eyes— As on | the old gods' | untend|ed altars The old fire | of with|ered wor|ship dies.

("Long measure"; but completely transfigured by the redundance and double rhyme in the odd places, and the trochaic and anapæstic substitution.)

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