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Gerald De Witt Sanders. A POETRY PRIMER by GERALD SANDERS " PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH MICHIGAN STATE NORMAL COLLEGE YPSILANTI , MICHIGAN FARRAR & RINEHART INCORPORATED Publishers New York NO VIMU COPYRIGHT , 1935 , BY GERALD SANDERS PRINTED.
Gerald De Witt Sanders. A POETRY PRIMER by GERALD SANDERS " PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH MICHIGAN STATE NORMAL COLLEGE YPSILANTI , MICHIGAN FARRAR & RINEHART INCORPORATED Publishers New York NO VIMU COPYRIGHT , 1935 , BY GERALD SANDERS PRINTED.
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... Michigan " the laws governing pro- nunciation require that the first syllable be accented and the other two unaccented . This cause of accent is called etymological . The second reason for the occurrence of accent grows out of the impor ...
... Michigan " the laws governing pro- nunciation require that the first syllable be accented and the other two unaccented . This cause of accent is called etymological . The second reason for the occurrence of accent grows out of the impor ...
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... Michigan , mystical ) .3 Of these the iamb and the trochee , it will be noted , are alike in having two syllables , and the anapest and the dactyl in having three syllables ; while the iamb and the anapest are alike in accent- ing the ...
... Michigan , mystical ) .3 Of these the iamb and the trochee , it will be noted , are alike in having two syllables , and the anapest and the dactyl in having three syllables ; while the iamb and the anapest are alike in accent- ing the ...
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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