A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... arrangement resembles closely that of prose . But if mere appearance is not always trust- worthy as a means of distinguishing poetry from prose , other dis- tinctions exist that will help . One is the tendency of poetry to re- solve ...
... arrangement resembles closely that of prose . But if mere appearance is not always trust- worthy as a means of distinguishing poetry from prose , other dis- tinctions exist that will help . One is the tendency of poetry to re- solve ...
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... arrangement of matter on the page . Poetry is arranged according to a metrical scheme which frequently does not coincide with rhetorical divi- sions . Yet many persons read verse according to the metrical ar- rangement , pausing at the ...
... arrangement of matter on the page . Poetry is arranged according to a metrical scheme which frequently does not coincide with rhetorical divi- sions . Yet many persons read verse according to the metrical ar- rangement , pausing at the ...
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... arrangement of metre and feet , have special names . Iambic tetrameter is called long metre ; iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter , common metre ; and iambic trimeter , short metre . Iambic pentameter is called heroic ...
... arrangement of metre and feet , have special names . Iambic tetrameter is called long metre ; iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter , common metre ; and iambic trimeter , short metre . Iambic pentameter is called heroic ...
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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