A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... element that poetry differs chiefly from prose , for although emotion is present in prose , it is there properly subordinated to reason , while in poetry it is one of the dominant elements . And in this respect also poetry differs from ...
... element that poetry differs chiefly from prose , for although emotion is present in prose , it is there properly subordinated to reason , while in poetry it is one of the dominant elements . And in this respect also poetry differs from ...
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... elements of verse , and thus have a double utility . First may be considered the quality of certain sounds . A stu- dent will not progress far in the analysis of verse before discover- ing that poets take every available opportunity of ...
... elements of verse , and thus have a double utility . First may be considered the quality of certain sounds . A stu- dent will not progress far in the analysis of verse before discover- ing that poets take every available opportunity of ...
Page 41
... elements producing accent , although of less significance than stress , it should not be ignored . The third cause of accent is stress , by which is meant the intensity or force with which a syllable is spoken . This is the element of ...
... elements producing accent , although of less significance than stress , it should not be ignored . The third cause of accent is stress , by which is meant the intensity or force with which a syllable is spoken . This is the element of ...
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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