A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... rose , and as love and rose belong to different classes , he has created a simile . A simile is usually introduced by as or like . A few more examples may be cited to illustrate its use : His legions - Angel Forms , who lay entranced ...
... rose , and as love and rose belong to different classes , he has created a simile . A simile is usually introduced by as or like . A few more examples may be cited to illustrate its use : His legions - Angel Forms , who lay entranced ...
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... 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 , is a matter of ...
... 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 , is a matter of ...
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... Rose " : When I saw you last , Rose , You were only so high ; - How fast the time goes ! Like a bud ere it blows , You just peeped at the sky , When I saw you last , Rose ! Now your petals unclose , Now your May - time is nigh ; - How ...
... Rose " : When I saw you last , Rose , You were only so high ; - How fast the time goes ! Like a bud ere it blows , You just peeped at the sky , When I saw you last , Rose ! Now your petals unclose , Now your May - time is nigh ; - How ...
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