A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... doth keel the pot . When all aloud the wind doth blow , And coughing drowns the parson's saw , And birds sit brooding in the snow , And Marian's nose looks red and raw , When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl , Then nightly sings the ...
... doth keel the pot . When all aloud the wind doth blow , And coughing drowns the parson's saw , And birds sit brooding in the snow , And Marian's nose looks red and raw , When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl , Then nightly sings the ...
Page 61
... Doth God exact day - labor , light denied ? " I fondly ask . But Patience , to prevent That murmur , soon replies , " God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts . Who best Bear his mild yoke , they serve him best . His state ...
... Doth God exact day - labor , light denied ? " I fondly ask . But Patience , to prevent That murmur , soon replies , " God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts . Who best Bear his mild yoke , they serve him best . His state ...
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... doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare , Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know , where'er I go , That there hath passed away a glory from the earth . III ...
... doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare , Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know , where'er I go , That there hath passed away a glory from the earth . III ...
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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