A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... common with such other abstract things as art , beauty , love , and nature , can- not be defined once and for all . It is , in the first place , too com- plex and varied to be narrowed to the limits of a single definition . Men's ideas ...
... common with such other abstract things as art , beauty , love , and nature , can- not be defined once and for all . It is , in the first place , too com- plex and varied to be narrowed to the limits of a single definition . Men's ideas ...
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... common folk had no books or , in still earlier times , no manuscripts , happenings which today would be news stories were made into songs and passed along by word of mouth . Doubtless some of these stories were composed entirely by one ...
... common folk had no books or , in still earlier times , no manuscripts , happenings which today would be news stories were made into songs and passed along by word of mouth . Doubtless some of these stories were composed entirely by one ...
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... common of all stanza forms , are called quatrains . The most common forms are abab , abcb , and abba , although such other combinations occur as aaaa , aabb , aaab , abaa , aaba , and abbb . Two forms of the quatrain have special ...
... common of all stanza forms , are called quatrains . The most common forms are abab , abcb , and abba , although such other combinations occur as aaaa , aabb , aaab , abaa , aaba , and abbb . Two forms of the quatrain have special ...
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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