A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... trochaic foot , or a trochee , is one composed of two syllables with the accent on the first ( e.g. , Boston , accent ) . / X 1 X An anapestic foot , or an anapest , is one composed of three syl- lables with the accent on the third ...
... trochaic foot , or a trochee , is one composed of two syllables with the accent on the first ( e.g. , Boston , accent ) . / X 1 X An anapestic foot , or an anapest , is one composed of three syl- lables with the accent on the third ...
Page 45
... 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 [ 45 ] THE FOOT AND THE LINE.
... 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 [ 45 ] THE FOOT AND THE LINE.
Page 46
... trochaic verse an occasional dactyl or iamb , and so on . In addition to the inter- change of principal feet , another form of substitution is the use of a spondaic or a pyrrhic foot . A spondaic foot , or spondee , is composed of two ...
... trochaic verse an occasional dactyl or iamb , and so on . In addition to the inter- change of principal feet , another form of substitution is the use of a spondaic or a pyrrhic foot . A spondaic foot , or spondee , 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