A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... syllables of very , gather , and beauty and the second syl- lable of beloved are accented for etymological reasons ; names , dear , sounds , and sense are accented for rhetorical reasons ; and things and from for metrical reasons . TIME ...
... syllables of very , gather , and beauty and the second syl- lable of beloved are accented for etymological reasons ; names , dear , sounds , and sense are accented for rhetorical reasons ; and things and from for metrical reasons . TIME ...
Page 44
... syllables it contains and the position of the accented syllable . In English prosody four principal feet are recognized- the iamb , the trochee , the anapest , and the dactyl . An iambic foot , or an iamb , is one composed of two syllables ...
... syllables it contains and the position of the accented syllable . In English prosody four principal feet are recognized- the iamb , the trochee , the anapest , and the dactyl . An iambic foot , or an iamb , is one composed of two syllables ...
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... syllables in every line and with the accents recurring with absolute regularity - would become monotonous . Hence to ... syllables , both of which are accented ( e.g. , New York , wave - like ) . A pyrrhic foot is composed of two ...
... syllables in every line and with the accents recurring with absolute regularity - would become monotonous . Hence to ... syllables , both of which are accented ( e.g. , New York , wave - like ) . A pyrrhic foot is composed of two ...
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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