A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... metre . The terms rhythm and metre are often used interchangeably , but as rhythm in a broad sense is applicable to prose and to free verse as well as to more strictly patterned language , it seems better to distinguish the two ...
... metre . The terms rhythm and metre are often used interchangeably , but as rhythm in a broad sense is applicable to prose and to free verse as well as to more strictly patterned language , it seems better to distinguish the two ...
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... metre ; iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter , common metre ; and iambic trimeter , short metre . Iambic pentameter is called heroic metre . An alexandrine is a line containing six iambic feet . 3 In classical ...
... metre ; iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter , common metre ; and iambic trimeter , short metre . Iambic pentameter is called heroic metre . An alexandrine is a line containing six iambic feet . 3 In classical ...
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... metre and rime - scheme . THE COUPLET The shortest form of the stanza is the couplet , which consists of two lines riming aa . Couplets may be written in any metre , but those written in iambic pentameter are somewhat more common than ...
... metre and rime - scheme . THE COUPLET The shortest form of the stanza is the couplet , which consists of two lines riming aa . Couplets may be written in any metre , but those written in iambic pentameter are somewhat more common than ...
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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