A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... written in a high and lofty vein and deals with tribal , national , or racial movements and struggles ; and is different in that it is the product of a poet who in a literary age attempts to produce a poem in the manner of the heroic ...
... written in a high and lofty vein and deals with tribal , national , or racial movements and struggles ; and is different in that it is the product of a poet who in a literary age attempts to produce a poem in the manner of the heroic ...
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... written in verse . Much of the tragedy and comedy of past times , however , was written as poetry . All the great Greek dramatists - Eschylus , Sophocles , Euripides , and others - made verse their vehicle of ex- pression . It was used ...
... written in verse . Much of the tragedy and comedy of past times , however , was written as poetry . All the great Greek dramatists - Eschylus , Sophocles , Euripides , and others - made verse their vehicle of ex- pression . It was used ...
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... written in any metre , but those written in iambic pentameter are somewhat more common than other metres , and to this special type is given the name heroic couplet . Following are some examples of the couplet : To draw no envy ...
... written in any metre , but those written in iambic pentameter are somewhat more common than other metres , and to this special type is given the name heroic couplet . Following are some examples of the couplet : To draw no envy ...
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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