A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... stanza after stanza of words ending with the sound ōre , places a constantly growing emphasis on these words and conse- quently on the ideas they present . Another sort of emphasis is illustrated by a stanza from Shelley's " To a ...
... stanza after stanza of words ending with the sound ōre , places a constantly growing emphasis on these words and conse- quently on the ideas they present . Another sort of emphasis is illustrated by a stanza from Shelley's " To a ...
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Gerald De Witt Sanders. CHAPTER VIII THE STANZA A STANZA is a group of lines arranged as a melodic unit ac- cording to a definite pattern . Since stanzas are made by grouping lines , obviously two lines are the fewest that a stanza may ...
Gerald De Witt Sanders. CHAPTER VIII THE STANZA A STANZA is a group of lines arranged as a melodic unit ac- cording to a definite pattern . Since stanzas are made by grouping lines , obviously two lines are the fewest that a stanza may ...
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... stanza , noting the 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 ...
... stanza , noting the 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 ...
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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