A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... Italian and the English . The Italian form , an imita- tion of the Italian sonnet of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries , consists of an octave and a sestet , riming in the octave abbaabba and in the sestet cdecde or cdcdcd or ...
... Italian and the English . The Italian form , an imita- tion of the Italian sonnet of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries , consists of an octave and a sestet , riming in the octave abbaabba and in the sestet cdecde or cdcdcd or ...
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... Italian sonnet as used by Milton : When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide , And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless , though my soul more bent To serve therewith my ...
... Italian sonnet as used by Milton : When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide , And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless , though my soul more bent To serve therewith my ...
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... Italian form as used by Keats : Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold , And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold . Oft of one wide expanse had I been ...
... Italian form as used by Keats : Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold , And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold . Oft of one wide expanse had I been ...
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abab accent anapest antistrophe basic foot beauty birds blank verse Browning's called catalexis century cesura CHAPTER common consonants couplet Cowleyan dactyl death doth drama elements emotion employed English poetry English verse envoy epode examples experience expression feeling feet free verse give Greek hath Heaven heroic epic iamb iambic pentameter ideas imagination important instance Italian form Keats language light lines LONGFELLOW love thee Lowell's lyric poetry matter Matthew Arnold metre metrical scheme Milton mind narrative poetry night o'er Paradise Lost pause person Pindar poem poet poetic popular ballad prose prosody qualities quatrain rhetorical rhythm rime-scheme riming words Robert Bridges Rose sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's sing song sonnet soul sounds Spenser's stanza stanzaic forms story stress strophe structure student sweet syllables rime TENNYSON tercet themes things thou thought tion trochaic trochee understanding unstressed syllables usually vowels W. B. Yeats Whitman's WORDSWORTH writing written