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ORTHOMETRY. |
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Yet they in pleasing slumber lulled the sense.
" Co/nus."
Sweetest Shakspere, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
"L'Allegro."
Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse.
"L Allegro."
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy.
" II Penseroso."
Sometimes we have instances of vowel alliteration, e.g. :
Where awful arches make a noonday night.
Pope.
Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire.
Pope.
With sudden adoration and blank awe.
Milton.
Sleep on, thou mighty dead, A glorious tomb they've found thee,—
The broad blue sky above thee spread, The boundless ocean round thee.
Lyte.
Dryden and Pope both avail themselves freely of this poetic ornament; the latter seems specially to have taken care to make the consonance less obvious by separating the words more than usual: |
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