A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... RHYTHM AND METRE 4 VII . THE FOOT AND THE LINE 4 VIII . THE STANZA 49 IX . COMPLEX FORMS APPLYING TO WHOLE POEMS 58 X. POETRY WITHOUT RIME AND STANZA . 77 BIBLIOGRAPHY 86 INDEX 89 CHAPTER I THE POET It is not the office of.
... RHYTHM AND METRE 4 VII . THE FOOT AND THE LINE 4 VIII . THE STANZA 49 IX . COMPLEX FORMS APPLYING TO WHOLE POEMS 58 X. POETRY WITHOUT RIME AND STANZA . 77 BIBLIOGRAPHY 86 INDEX 89 CHAPTER I THE POET It is not the office of.
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... chapter has been to aid the student to recognize poetry and to help him arrive at the point where he will appreciate it . And now remains to give a few of the reasons why poetry is worth the best effort to understand it . Perhaps the ...
... chapter has been to aid the student to recognize poetry and to help him arrive at the point where he will appreciate it . And now remains to give a few of the reasons why poetry is worth the best effort to understand it . Perhaps the ...
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... chapter has dealt only with the general problem of accent and time intervals ; the following chapter considers these in a more particular way . CHAPTER VII THE FOOT AND THE LINE POETRY is organized [ 43 ] RHYTHM AND METRE.
... chapter has dealt only with the general problem of accent and time intervals ; the following chapter considers these in a more particular way . CHAPTER VII THE FOOT AND THE LINE POETRY is organized [ 43 ] RHYTHM AND METRE.
Contents
PREFACE CHAPTER I THE POET | 1 |
THE NATURE AND USES OF POETRY | 4 |
THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY | 13 |
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abab accent anapest antistrophe basic foot beauty birds blank verse Browning's called catalexis century cesura common consonants couplet Cowleyan dactyl death doth drama edited 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 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 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