A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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Page 29
... pausing at the end of each line , whether a natural pause comes there or not , and in general paying little attention to the rhetorical divisions . One of the first things to realize in reading poetry is that the rules of punctuation ...
... pausing at the end of each line , whether a natural pause comes there or not , and in general paying little attention to the rhetorical divisions . One of the first things to realize in reading poetry is that the rules of punctuation ...
Page 42
... pause does not take the place of omitted syllables but helps to divide longer lines of poetry - usually lines of eight or more syllables - into natural speech units . Such a break in the rhythm is called cesura and is normally ...
... pause does not take the place of omitted syllables but helps to divide longer lines of poetry - usually lines of eight or more syllables - into natural speech units . Such a break in the rhythm is called cesura and is normally ...
Page 91
... Pauses , 42 Peele , George , 77 Pentameter , 45 Perry , Bliss , 87 Personification , 15 , 17 Petrarch , Francis , 58 , 59 Phrasing , 48 n . Pindar , 63 , 67 , 68 , 69 Pindaric ode , 63-68 Pinkney , E. C. , 55 Pitch , 40-41 Poe , E. A. ...
... Pauses , 42 Peele , George , 77 Pentameter , 45 Perry , Bliss , 87 Personification , 15 , 17 Petrarch , Francis , 58 , 59 Phrasing , 48 n . Pindar , 63 , 67 , 68 , 69 Pindaric ode , 63-68 Pinkney , E. C. , 55 Pitch , 40-41 Poe , E. A. ...
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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