A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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Page 41
... English poetry , for although there is a tendency in Eng- lish to take longer in speaking a syllable containing a long vowel or a diphthong than one containing a short vowel , the difference is too inappreciable to form the basis of ...
... English poetry , for although there is a tendency in Eng- lish to take longer in speaking a syllable containing a long vowel or a diphthong than one containing a short vowel , the difference is too inappreciable to form the basis of ...
Page 58
... poem of fourteen lines , written in iambic pen- tameter , with a special rime - scheme . Two forms exist in English poetry - the Italian and the English . The Italian form , an imita- tion of the Italian sonnet of the thirteenth to ...
... poem of fourteen lines , written in iambic pen- tameter , with a special rime - scheme . Two forms exist in English poetry - the Italian and the English . The Italian form , an imita- tion of the Italian sonnet of the thirteenth to ...
Page 87
... poetry is W. J. Courthope's History of English Poetry , 6 vols . , 1895- 1910 ; an excellent short treatise is R. M. Alden's English Verse , 1903. F. B. Gummere's Beginnings of Poetry , 1901 , is a scholarly study of the origins of ...
... poetry is W. J. Courthope's History of English Poetry , 6 vols . , 1895- 1910 ; an excellent short treatise is R. M. Alden's English Verse , 1903. F. B. Gummere's Beginnings of Poetry , 1901 , is a scholarly study of the origins of ...
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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 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 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