A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... arranged roughly in the order of their diffi- culty , follow : The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be ; And hungry crows , assembled in a crowd , Clamored their piteous prayer ...
... arranged roughly in the order of their diffi- culty , follow : The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be ; And hungry crows , assembled in a crowd , Clamored their piteous prayer ...
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... arrangement of matter on the page . Poetry is arranged according to a metrical scheme which frequently does not coincide with rhetorical divi- sions . Yet many persons read verse according to the metrical ar- rangement , pausing at the ...
... arrangement of matter on the page . Poetry is arranged according to a metrical scheme which frequently does not coincide with rhetorical divi- sions . Yet many persons read verse according to the metrical ar- rangement , pausing at the ...
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... arranged according to a definite pattern . In English poetry the foot contains either two or three syllables , one — and only one — of which is accented ( except in the spondaic foot and the pyrrhic foot , which are used only as substi ...
... arranged according to a definite pattern . In English poetry the foot contains either two or three syllables , one — and only one — of which is accented ( except in the spondaic foot and the pyrrhic foot , which are used only as substi ...
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