The structural quality of tone-color in Paradise lost
Abstract
This paper attempts to show to what extent the various manifestations of tone-color in Paradise Lost have compensated for the absence of rhyme. A chapter is devoted to the assimilative office of tone-color in the poem, that is, the use of alliteration and assonance to procure smoothness in reading from one line to another, and to unify and harmonize the verse-paragraphs. In the second part of the paper, the author deals with the structural aspect of end-rhyme, assonance, and alliteration as they appear in the poem. To evaluate the results he compares Milton's usage with the practice of other representative authors of blank verse.
Degree
M.A.
Thesis Department
Rights
OpenAccess.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.