A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... passed on by word of mouth from generation to generation , gaining accretions in this progress , gradually took on definite shape , and finally became crystallized as the poems we know.2 The literary epic resembles the heroic epic in ...
... passed on by word of mouth from generation to generation , gaining accretions in this progress , gradually took on definite shape , and finally became crystallized as the poems we know.2 The literary epic resembles the heroic epic in ...
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... passed time . -SPENSER , Amoretti , LXX The English sonnet in the hands of Shakespeare : When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights , And beauty making beautiful old rime , In praise of ladies dead and ...
... passed time . -SPENSER , Amoretti , LXX The English sonnet in the hands of Shakespeare : When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights , And beauty making beautiful old rime , In praise of ladies dead and ...
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... passed , since the chime of it rang , And they fashioned it , figure and hue , In the reign of the Emperor Hwang . These dragons ( their tails , you remark , Into bunches of gillyflowers grew ) — When Noah came out of the ark , Did ...
... passed , since the chime of it rang , And they fashioned it , figure and hue , In the reign of the Emperor Hwang . These dragons ( their tails , you remark , Into bunches of gillyflowers grew ) — When Noah came out of the ark , Did ...
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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