A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... employed as supplementary to rime as an emphasiz- ing element , but in the following poem replaces rime : Maiden , crowned with glossy blackness , Lithe as panther forest - roaming , Long - armed naiad , when she dances , On a stream of ...
... employed as supplementary to rime as an emphasiz- ing element , but in the following poem replaces rime : Maiden , crowned with glossy blackness , Lithe as panther forest - roaming , Long - armed naiad , when she dances , On a stream of ...
Page 58
... employed this form when writing his famous sonnet - sequence ) consists of three quatrains and a couplet , riming abab cdcd efef gg.1 The origin of the sonnet has not been traced . Some believe it to have originated with the Provençal ...
... employed this form when writing his famous sonnet - sequence ) consists of three quatrains and a couplet , riming abab cdcd efef gg.1 The origin of the sonnet has not been traced . Some believe it to have originated with the Provençal ...
Page 69
... employed a very irregular metrical scheme with no formal relationship between the various divisions , with long and ... employing the usual stanza forms , it became for a time highly popular after the publi- cation by Cowley of his ...
... employed a very irregular metrical scheme with no formal relationship between the various divisions , with long and ... employing the usual stanza forms , it became for a time highly popular after the publi- cation by Cowley of his ...
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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