A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... exist- ence , the student after a little practice should be able to tell for what purpose the author wrote it . And then having done this , he is ready to begin a more careful study of it . If the poem tells a story , the student should ...
... exist- ence , the student after a little practice should be able to tell for what purpose the author wrote it . And then having done this , he is ready to begin a more careful study of it . If the poem tells a story , the student should ...
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... exist in English poetry - the Italian and the English . The Italian form , an imita- tion of the Italian sonnet of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries , consists of an octave and a sestet , riming in the octave abbaabba and in the ...
... exist in English poetry - the Italian and the English . The Italian form , an imita- tion of the Italian sonnet of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries , consists of an octave and a sestet , riming in the octave abbaabba and in the ...
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... exist in English , it has never been popular with English poets , and since Gray has fallen into disuse . The Horatian ode . - Among Latin poets the ode took an entirely different form from that developed by Pindar and his group . It ...
... exist in English , it has never been popular with English poets , and since Gray has fallen into disuse . The Horatian ode . - Among Latin poets the ode took an entirely different form from that developed by Pindar and his group . It ...
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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