A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... term is used in English . So considerable is this importance , indeed , that the term stress is frequently used as a synonym for the inclusive term accent . The problem of the student beginning a study of prosody is not so much ...
... term is used in English . So considerable is this importance , indeed , that the term stress is frequently used as a synonym for the inclusive term accent . The problem of the student beginning a study of prosody is not so much ...
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... term for the latter being stanza ; but since verse is also used in this book for a certain class of metrical composition , the term line will be employed instead of the technical term . 2 In this book an accented syllable is marked thus ...
... term for the latter being stanza ; but since verse is also used in this book for a certain class of metrical composition , the term line will be employed instead of the technical term . 2 In this book an accented syllable is marked thus ...
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... term that defines this type of rhythm , are vowels , while the initial letters of trochaic and dactylic , and of descending , the term that defines this type , are con- sonants . SUBSTITUTIONS FOR THE BASIC FOOT A whole poem written in ...
... term that defines this type of rhythm , are vowels , while the initial letters of trochaic and dactylic , and of descending , the term that defines this type , are con- sonants . SUBSTITUTIONS FOR THE BASIC FOOT A whole poem written in ...
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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