A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... distinguish between them by the appearance of each on the page . A maturer student learns , however , that such a ... distinguishing poetry from prose , other dis- tinctions exist that will help . One is the tendency of poetry to re ...
... distinguish between them by the appearance of each on the page . A maturer student learns , however , that such a ... distinguishing poetry from prose , other dis- tinctions exist that will help . One is the tendency of poetry to re ...
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... distinguish between real poetry and mere writing in rime does not come in a day , however , but is the result of conscious study or long reading of good poetry , or both . Of these , reading is the more important ; but having an ...
... distinguish between real poetry and mere writing in rime does not come in a day , however , but is the result of conscious study or long reading of good poetry , or both . Of these , reading is the more important ; but having an ...
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Gerald De Witt Sanders. CHAPTER VI RHYTHM AND METRE STRUCTURALLY the chief distinguishing quality of poetry is rhythm ... distinguish the two , calling metre organized rhythm . That is , when rhythm follows a definite pattern , so that ...
Gerald De Witt Sanders. CHAPTER VI RHYTHM AND METRE STRUCTURALLY the chief distinguishing quality of poetry is rhythm ... distinguish the two , calling metre organized rhythm . That is , when rhythm follows a definite pattern , so that ...
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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