A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... final form they were shaped and unified by one man , as the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer , is a question on which scholars differ , and which we need not here try to resolve . went along , until at last it was written down [ 34 ] A ...
... final form they were shaped and unified by one man , as the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer , is a question on which scholars differ , and which we need not here try to resolve . went along , until at last it was written down [ 34 ] A ...
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... final syllable , and the trochee and the dactyl in accenting the first syllable . When the unaccented syllable comes first and is followed by the accented , the rhythm is called ascending ; and when the accented syllable comes first ...
... final syllable , and the trochee and the dactyl in accenting the first syllable . When the unaccented syllable comes first and is followed by the accented , the rhythm is called ascending ; and when the accented syllable comes first ...
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... Final stress , type of , 47 Fitzgerald , Edward , 16 , 52 Fletcher , John , 77 Fletcher , John Gould , 82 Foot , the , 44-45 Ford , John , 39 , 77 Foster , Stephen , 36 , 55 Free verse , 80-85 French , W. H. , 87 French forms , 72-76 ...
... Final stress , type of , 47 Fitzgerald , Edward , 16 , 52 Fletcher , John , 77 Fletcher , John Gould , 82 Foot , the , 44-45 Ford , John , 39 , 77 Foster , Stephen , 36 , 55 Free verse , 80-85 French , W. H. , 87 French forms , 72-76 ...
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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