A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... one syllable over adjacent syllables . This prominence may result from one of three causes or a combination of them . The first is the rise in pitch , which is brought about by an increase in the rate [ 40 ] RHYTHM and METRE.
... one syllable over adjacent syllables . This prominence may result from one of three causes or a combination of them . The first is the rise in pitch , which is brought about by an increase in the rate [ 40 ] RHYTHM and METRE.
Page 80
... combination of feet . The idea behind free verse is to free poetry of conformity to what is sometimes thought to be the artificialities of the formal metrical schemes . It is based on rhythm , but rhythm in a broad rather than a narrow ...
... combination of feet . The idea behind free verse is to free poetry of conformity to what is sometimes thought to be the artificialities of the formal metrical schemes . It is based on rhythm , but rhythm in a broad rather than a narrow ...
Page 84
... combined into muscles and glands , Some organs for craving and lust . Most remained on the tormented void- Urizen's army of horrors . Round the pale living corse on the tree Forty years flew the arrows of pestilence . Wailing , and ...
... combined into muscles and glands , Some organs for craving and lust . Most remained on the tormented void- Urizen's army of horrors . Round the pale living corse on the tree Forty years flew the arrows of pestilence . Wailing , and ...
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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