A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... definite shape , and finally became crystallized as the poems we know.2 The literary epic resembles the heroic epic in that it is written in a high and lofty vein and deals with tribal , national , or racial movements and struggles ...
... definite shape , and finally became crystallized as the poems we know.2 The literary epic resembles the heroic epic in that it is written in a high and lofty vein and deals with tribal , national , or racial movements and struggles ...
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... definite patterns to form lines , and the lines named according to the number of feet in each . Thus when there is one foot to the line the verse is called monometer ; when there are two feet , dimeter ; when three feet , trimeter ...
... definite patterns to form lines , and the lines named according to the number of feet in each . Thus when there is one foot to the line the verse is called monometer ; when there are two feet , dimeter ; when three feet , trimeter ...
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... definite pattern . Since stanzas are made by grouping lines , obviously two lines are the fewest that a stanza may contain . There is no arbitrary limit at the other extreme to the number of lines a stanza may have , although in ...
... definite pattern . Since stanzas are made by grouping lines , obviously two lines are the fewest that a stanza may contain . There is no arbitrary limit at the other extreme to the number of lines a stanza may have , although in ...
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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