A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... LYRIC POETRY Lo A Since the body of lyric poetry is so large and the types grouped under this term so diverse , a more arbitrary method of subdividing has to be employed than with narrative poetry . One method is to group the poems ...
... LYRIC POETRY Lo A Since the body of lyric poetry is so large and the types grouped under this term so diverse , a more arbitrary method of subdividing has to be employed than with narrative poetry . One method is to group the poems ...
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... lyric . - Next are poems which because of their highly personal and emotional qualities , their simple structure , and their brevity may be designated as pure lyrics . In general they are brief and have simple rime - schemes ...
... lyric . - Next are poems which because of their highly personal and emotional qualities , their simple structure , and their brevity may be designated as pure lyrics . In general they are brief and have simple rime - schemes ...
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... lyric poem expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion , especially one of complex or irregular metrical form " ; and by Sir Edmund Gosse in English Odes as " any strain of enthusiastic and exalted lyrical verse , directed to a fixed ...
... lyric poem expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion , especially one of complex or irregular metrical form " ; and by Sir Edmund Gosse in English Odes as " any strain of enthusiastic and exalted lyrical verse , directed to a fixed ...
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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