A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... sonnet , the ode , reflective poetry , didactic poetry , and satirical poetry are treated as if co- ordinate with these groups . And here we meet with difficulties , for although virtually all sonnets are lyrics , the sonnet has to do ...
... sonnet , the ode , reflective poetry , didactic poetry , and satirical poetry are treated as if co- ordinate with these groups . And here we meet with difficulties , for although virtually all sonnets are lyrics , the sonnet has to do ...
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... sonnet - sequence ) consists of three quatrains and a couplet , riming abab cdcd efef gg.1 The origin of the sonnet has not been traced . Some believe it to have originated with the Provençal poets ; others insist that it was in Italy ...
... sonnet - sequence ) consists of three quatrains and a couplet , riming abab cdcd efef gg.1 The origin of the sonnet has not been traced . Some believe it to have originated with the Provençal poets ; others insist that it was in Italy ...
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... Sonnets , CVI The Italian sonnet as used by Milton : When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide , And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless , though my soul more bent To ...
... Sonnets , CVI The Italian sonnet as used by Milton : When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide , And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless , though my soul more bent To ...
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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