Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Byron” in chapter 5 of Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches:
...rse he has no English rival since Spenser.
The trochaic meter in which Hiawatha is written would seem to have been his own invention; and is a very agreeable change from the perpetual iambics of Byron and Wordsworth.
Evangeline is perhaps the most successful instance of Greek and Latin hexameter being grafted on to an English stem.
Matthew Arnold considered it too dactylic, but the lightness ...
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† | Byron | 494 | 20 | 46 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
A. T. Noel Byron | 126 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Noel Byron | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
R. Byron | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
George Gordon Byron | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Zepheron A. Byron | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
G. Gordon Byron | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
George Anson Byron | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Heary Byron | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
James Byron | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Michael Byron | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
P. Byron | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Patrick Byron | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
John W. Byron | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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