A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... examples may be cited to illustrate its use : His legions - Angel Forms , who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa , where the Etrurian shades High overarched embower ; or scattered sedge Afloat ...
... examples may be cited to illustrate its use : His legions - Angel Forms , who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa , where the Etrurian shades High overarched embower ; or scattered sedge Afloat ...
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... examples as the following : ALLUSIONS Ye flowery banks o ' bonnie Doon , How can ye blume sae fair ! -BURNS , " The Banks o ' Doon " Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour . -WORDSWORTH , " Sonnet to Milton " Ah what avails the ...
... examples as the following : ALLUSIONS Ye flowery banks o ' bonnie Doon , How can ye blume sae fair ! -BURNS , " The Banks o ' Doon " Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour . -WORDSWORTH , " Sonnet to Milton " Ah what avails the ...
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... examples of the literary epic are Virgil's Aeneid , Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered , and Milton's Paradise Lost . The mock epic is a poem which employs the grandiloquent language and the elaborate machinery of the heroic epic while dealing ...
... examples of the literary epic are Virgil's Aeneid , Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered , and Milton's Paradise Lost . The mock epic is a poem which employs the grandiloquent language and the elaborate machinery of the heroic epic while dealing ...
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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