A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... wrote his comment about 1581 , Shelley his in 1821. But the dates are close enough to give an idea of the ap- proximate time at which each was stated . prose in general seeks to avoid these . Another is [ 5 ] THE NATURE AND USES OF POETRY.
... wrote his comment about 1581 , Shelley his in 1821. But the dates are close enough to give an idea of the ap- proximate time at which each was stated . prose in general seeks to avoid these . Another is [ 5 ] THE NATURE AND USES OF POETRY.
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... close rime , but not pose and suppose ( because the consonant sounds preceding the accented vowel o are similar ) , nor rose and host ( because the sounds after the accented vowels differ ) . Rime , then , is a matter of sound , not of ...
... close rime , but not pose and suppose ( because the consonant sounds preceding the accented vowel o are similar ) , nor rose and host ( because the sounds after the accented vowels differ ) . Rime , then , is a matter of sound , not of ...
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... close his sonnets with a couplet , a practice not found in Italian poetry . Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey ( 1515-1547 ) , one of Wyatt's friends and admirers , varied from the Italian type still further and produced what is called the ...
... close his sonnets with a couplet , a practice not found in Italian poetry . Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey ( 1515-1547 ) , one of Wyatt's friends and admirers , varied from the Italian type still further and produced what is called 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