A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... vowels and consonants which aid in producing the effects the sense requires . Thus they make use of long vowels to suggest slow and deliberate movement and of short ones to suggest hurry . Note in the following exam- ples , for instance ...
... vowels and consonants which aid in producing the effects the sense requires . Thus they make use of long vowels to suggest slow and deliberate movement and of short ones to suggest hurry . Note in the following exam- ples , for instance ...
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... vowel . Thus pose , rose , and close rime , but not pose and suppose ( because the consonant sounds preceding the accented vowel o are similar ) , nor rose and host ( because the sounds after the accented vowels differ ) . Rime , then ...
... vowel . Thus pose , rose , and close rime , but not pose and suppose ( because the consonant sounds preceding the accented vowel o are similar ) , nor rose and host ( because the sounds after the accented vowels differ ) . Rime , then ...
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... vowel or a diphthong than one containing a short vowel , the difference is too inappreciable to form the basis of rhythm . Yet as one of the elements producing accent , although of less significance than stress , it should not be ...
... vowel or a diphthong than one containing a short vowel , the difference is too inappreciable to form the basis of rhythm . Yet as one of the elements producing accent , although of less significance than stress , it should not be ...
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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