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Adelaide Crapsey
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“My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.”
Adelaide Crapsey (1878–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Study in English Metrics Alfred Knopf New York 1918.
“The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep?”
Adelaide Crapsey (1878–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These be Three silent things: The falling snow...the hour Before the dawn...the mouth of one Just dead.”
Adelaide Crapsey (1878–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Listen. With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees And fall.”
Adelaide Crapsey (1878–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know Not these my hands And yet I think there was A woman like me once had hands Like these.”
Adelaide Crapsey (1878–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source