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Show \ FIFTH AIM: THE SPEECH PARAGRAPH 91 the main centers on which hang the ideas-and then is carried from proportion of the carefully the reading kept and are that co-ordinate, and that muse ponder distinguishes pause and ponder are not. We have orally diagrammed this sentence in a these centers to the detail. is' always sentence In this way the balanced. See how live way and for a real purpose, an end which is never seen in gram matical diagramming. Illustration. In order to make clear how important it is to keep the balance of your sentence, so that your reading will not become one-sided or over-weighted, let us take 'one more example-the introduction to Milton's "Paradise Lost"! Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us; and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos. '1. Sing, Heavenly Muse. 2. Of Man's first disobedience, Sing, Heavenly Muse. 3. Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, Sing, Heavenly Muse. 4. Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, Sing; Heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai,5. Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that on the secret top |
