A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... poem belongs . Classified thus , poetry is narrative , lyric , or dramatic.1 THE THREE TYPES DISTINGUISHED If the ... free verse , and stanzaic forms . tions and aspirations . Examples of the heroic epic are [ 33 ] THE MAIN CLASSES OF ...
... poem belongs . Classified thus , poetry is narrative , lyric , or dramatic.1 THE THREE TYPES DISTINGUISHED If the ... free verse , and stanzaic forms . tions and aspirations . Examples of the heroic epic are [ 33 ] THE MAIN CLASSES OF ...
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... verse is for the accent to recur after an interval of not fewer than one nor more than two un- stressed syllables . In actual practice there are frequent modifica- tions of this system in even the most metrical verse , while in free verse ...
... verse is for the accent to recur after an interval of not fewer than one nor more than two un- stressed syllables . In actual practice there are frequent modifica- tions of this system in even the most metrical verse , while in free verse ...
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... FREE VERSE -TENNYSON , " The Passing of Arthur " Free verse is poetry of irregular metre and usually without rime . The lines conform rather to rhetorical than to metrical grouping . They are of varying length , a line of two feet , for ...
... FREE VERSE -TENNYSON , " The Passing of Arthur " Free verse is poetry of irregular metre and usually without rime . The lines conform rather to rhetorical than to metrical grouping . They are of varying length , a line of two feet , for ...
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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