A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... songs are love , nature , and patriotism ; and of sacred songs , religion , death , and immor- tality . Good examples of the former are John Lyly's " Apelles ' Song , " Shakespeare's " Who Is Sylvia , " " O Mistress Mine , " and " Fear ...
... songs are love , nature , and patriotism ; and of sacred songs , religion , death , and immor- tality . Good examples of the former are John Lyly's " Apelles ' Song , " Shakespeare's " Who Is Sylvia , " " O Mistress Mine , " and " Fear ...
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... songs . Some of the best examples of this group are Her- rick's " To Daffodils , " Waller's " Go , Lovely Rose ... Song . " The longer lyric . - A further group is differentiated from that just considered by its sustained emotion ...
... songs . Some of the best examples of this group are Her- rick's " To Daffodils , " Waller's " Go , Lovely Rose ... Song . " The longer lyric . - A further group is differentiated from that just considered by its sustained emotion ...
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... Song " ( ababb ) We look before and after And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought . -SHELLEY , " To a Skylark " ( abccb ) There was a time ...
... Song " ( ababb ) We look before and after And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought . -SHELLEY , " To a Skylark " ( abccb ) There was a time ...
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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