A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... prose , as in the Psalms , parts of the Old Testament prophecies , and many Greek poems ; or in some modern free verse , where the page arrangement resembles closely that of prose . But if mere appearance is not always trust- worthy as ...
... prose , as in the Psalms , parts of the Old Testament prophecies , and many Greek poems ; or in some modern free verse , where the page arrangement resembles closely that of prose . But if mere appearance is not always trust- worthy as ...
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... prose avoids a too mellifluous flow of words . But not only in structure is poetry distinguishable from prose ; it differs also in aim . The primary appeal of prose is to the reason , of poetry to the emotions and the imagination . Yet ...
... prose avoids a too mellifluous flow of words . But not only in structure is poetry distinguishable from prose ; it differs also in aim . The primary appeal of prose is to the reason , of poetry to the emotions and the imagination . Yet ...
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... prose in some of its qualities , many who can read prose intelligently make but a poor attempt at under- standing poetry . One of these differences is the arrangement of matter on the page . Poetry is arranged according to a metrical ...
... prose in some of its qualities , many who can read prose intelligently make but a poor attempt at under- standing poetry . One of these differences is the arrangement of matter on the page . Poetry is arranged according to a metrical ...
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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