A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... containing a long vowel or a diphthong than one containing a short vowel , the difference is too inappreciable to form the basis of rhythm . Yet as one of the elements producing accent , although of less significance than stress , it ...
... containing a long vowel or a diphthong than one containing a short vowel , the difference is too inappreciable to form the basis of rhythm . Yet as one of the elements producing accent , although of less significance than stress , it ...
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... containing six iambic feet . 3 In classical versification some writers distinguish a great variety of feet in addi- tion to the four basic types described here , and some writers on English verse follow them in recognizing several ...
... containing six iambic feet . 3 In classical versification some writers distinguish a great variety of feet in addi- tion to the four basic types described here , and some writers on English verse follow them in recognizing several ...
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... contain . There is no arbitrary limit at the other extreme to the number of lines a stanza may have , although in ... containing a different riming word , c for the third , and so on . Stanza forms are too numerous and varied to allow ...
... contain . There is no arbitrary limit at the other extreme to the number of lines a stanza may have , although in ... containing a different riming word , c for the third , and so on . Stanza forms are too numerous and varied to allow ...
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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