PROSODY PRACTICE SET -3


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PROSODY PRACTICE FOR BEGINNERS

Set -2
Scan the following verse and mention the prosodic name, if any.

Question -1
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! 
Bird thou never wert, 
That from Heaven, or near it, 
Pourest thy full heart 
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. 

Question -2
Higher still and higher 
From the earth thou springest 
Like a cloud of fire; 
The blue deep thou wingest, 
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. 

Question -3
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains 
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, 
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:


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