...not enough no harshness give offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in...The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ;...

...on the tyrant's breast, And make Oppression groan oppress'd.. Soft is the strain when zephyr geutly blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows...hoarse, rough verse, should like the torrent roar. 4. Examples of the Quaver P . From the knaves, and the fools, and the fops of the time, From the drudges...

...examples he gives of these effects are contained in the following lines : — " Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar." He also gives a couplet intended to indicate the effect of airy, tripping, lightness — but he is...

...Excellency. ""Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth Stream in smoother Number flow; But when loud Surges lash the sounding Shore, The hoarse, rough Verse should like the Torrent roar. When Ajax strives some Rock's vast Weight to throw, The line too labours, and the Words move slow;...

..."nevertheless" here into a case of "because" (in the same passage from An Essay on Criticism quoted above): "But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, / The...hoarse, rough Verse should like the torrent roar." The effusive speaker of Browning's youthful Pauline, his poetic confidence flagging, vows, "So, I will...

...not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know...

...harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gendy blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, 370 The line too labours, and the words move slow;...

...not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours and the words move slow: (Essay...

...drags its slow length along," Pope shows how to do it right, imitating his subjects in his sounds: "But when loud Surges lash the sounding Shore, / The hoarse, rough Verse shou'd like the Torrent roar." At issue here is the poetic effect of connecting a particular rhythm...

...Excellency, s. "Soft is the Strain when zephyr gently Blows, And the smooth Stream in smoother numhers Flows; But when loud Surges lash the sounding Shore,...hoarse, rough Verse should like the Torrent roar. When Ajax strives some Rock's vast Weight to throw, The Line too lahours, and the Words move slow;...