A Study of Shakespeare's Versification Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ERRATA
- I SHAKESPEARE'S VERSIFICATION
- II THE EARLY TEXTS
- APPENDICES
- APP. I PURE TROCHAIC PENTAPODIES: List
- APP. II OTHER LINES WITHOUT UPBEAT: Examples. ALCAICS
- APP. III LINES CONTAINING MONOSYLLABIC FEET: Examples. THE CROSS ACCENT: Examples
- APP. IV LINES CONTAINING QUADRISYLLABIC FEET: List
- APP. V CERTAIN PRONUNCIATIONS: Lines exemplifying these
- APP. VI ORDER OF COMPOSITION OF THE PLAYS
- APP. VII ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, a revised Text
- THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
- INDEX
APP. IV - LINES CONTAINING QUADRISYLLABIC FEET: List
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ERRATA
- I SHAKESPEARE'S VERSIFICATION
- II THE EARLY TEXTS
- APPENDICES
- APP. I PURE TROCHAIC PENTAPODIES: List
- APP. II OTHER LINES WITHOUT UPBEAT: Examples. ALCAICS
- APP. III LINES CONTAINING MONOSYLLABIC FEET: Examples. THE CROSS ACCENT: Examples
- APP. IV LINES CONTAINING QUADRISYLLABIC FEET: List
- APP. V CERTAIN PRONUNCIATIONS: Lines exemplifying these
- APP. VI ORDER OF COMPOSITION OF THE PLAYS
- APP. VII ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, a revised Text
- THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
- INDEX
Summary
The following list of 844 quadrisyllabic feet and 18 quinquesyllabics is, I hope, complete; but it is quite possible that a few have been overlooked. The quadrisyllabics in the doggerel of The Comedy of Errors and Love's Labour's Lost are not included in this total, and only a few of the examples from it are given below.
The Two Gentlemen (18):
Thoú, Julia, | thou hast metamorphosed me.
1. 1. 66.Have patience, gentle | Julia.—I | must, where | is no | remedy.∥
2. 2. 1.Julia, fare|well! What, gone without a word?
2. 2. 16.Silvia, I | speak to | you, and | you, Sir | Thurio;∥
2. 4. 84.Servant, you are | welcome to a worthless mistress.
2. 4. 113.Sovereign to | all the creatures on the earth.
2. 4. 153.Plotted and a|greed on for my happiness.
2. 4. 183.The Folio gives “'greed.”
Julia I | lose, and Valentine I lose:
2. 6. 19.Proteus, I | thank thee for thine honest care;
3. 1. 22.Silvia, this | night I will enfranchise thee.
3. 1. 151.Nothing but my | fortune.
4. 1. 43.Who?∧ | Silvia!—Ay, | Silvia; | for your | sake.
4. 2. 23.- Type
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- A Study of Shakespeare's VersificationWith an Inquiry into the Trustworthiness of the Early Texts an Examination of the 1616 Folio of Ben Jonson's Works and Appendices including a Revised Test of 'Antony and Cleopatra', pp. 340 - 389Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1920