A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... accents are normally regular , we have metre . The elements of metre , then , are accent and time intervals , and an understanding of these will lead to an understanding of metre as the term is used in poetry . ACCENT By accent is meant ...
... accents are normally regular , we have metre . The elements of metre , then , are accent and time intervals , and an understanding of these will lead to an understanding of metre as the term is used in poetry . ACCENT By accent is meant ...
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... accent , but in English it is of much less importance than intensity.1 The second cause of accent is increase in quantity , by which is meant the time employed in speaking the syllable . In Greek and Latin verse , quantity — or length ...
... accent , but in English it is of much less importance than intensity.1 The second cause of accent is increase in quantity , by which is meant the time employed in speaking the syllable . In Greek and Latin verse , quantity — or length ...
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... accent on the first ( e.g. , Boston , accent ) . / X 1 X An anapestic foot , or an anapest , is one composed of three syl- lables with the accent on the third ( e.g. , employee ) . X X / 1 In prosody the technical term for a line is ...
... accent on the first ( e.g. , Boston , accent ) . / X 1 X An anapestic foot , or an anapest , is one composed of three syl- lables with the accent on the third ( e.g. , employee ) . X X / 1 In prosody the technical term for a line is ...
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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