A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... rime- scheme . In giving the rime - scheme , a is always used to denote the first line and all lines thereafter in the same stanza which rime with it , b for the next line containing a different riming word , c for the third , and so on ...
... rime- scheme . In giving the rime - scheme , a is always used to denote the first line and all lines thereafter in the same stanza which rime with it , b for the next line containing a different riming word , c for the third , and so on ...
Page 56
... rime - scheme of each . STANZAS WITH REFRAIN AND TAIL - RIME Refrain stanzas are those in which the final line , or several lines , of each stanza is repeated throughout the poem . The fol- lowing examples illustrate the usage : I that ...
... rime - scheme of each . STANZAS WITH REFRAIN AND TAIL - RIME Refrain stanzas are those in which the final line , or several lines , of each stanza is repeated throughout the poem . The fol- lowing examples illustrate the usage : I that ...
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... rime - scheme . Two forms exist in English poetry - the Italian and the English . The Italian form , an imita- tion of the Italian sonnet of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries , consists of an octave and a sestet , riming in the ...
... rime - scheme . Two forms exist in English poetry - the Italian and the English . The Italian form , an imita- tion of the Italian sonnet of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries , consists of an octave and a sestet , riming in 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