A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... rhythm . The word rhythm is derived from the Greek pvouós , meaning measured motion . In a broad sense rhythm means recur- rence in time , and is applicable to any wave - like motion . Hence the ancients , observing the motions of the ...
... rhythm . The word rhythm is derived from the Greek pvouós , meaning measured motion . In a broad sense rhythm means recur- rence in time , and is applicable to any wave - like motion . Hence the ancients , observing the motions of the ...
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... rhythm is called ascending ; and when the accented syllable comes first , followed by the unaccented , it is called descending . * THE NUMBER OF FEET IN A LINE These feet are usually grouped in certain definite patterns to form lines ...
... rhythm is called ascending ; and when the accented syllable comes first , followed by the unaccented , it is called descending . * THE NUMBER OF FEET IN A LINE These feet are usually grouped in certain definite patterns to form lines ...
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... rhythm , but rhythm in a broad rather than a narrow sense.1 There is the rhythm of a clock tick- ing or of a metronome and of the sea beating on a rocky coast ; of the beating of a tom - tom and of the movement of air currents . The ...
... rhythm , but rhythm in a broad rather than a narrow sense.1 There is the rhythm of a clock tick- ing or of a metronome and of the sea beating on a rocky coast ; of the beating of a tom - tom and of the movement of air currents . The ...
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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