A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... called end rime . But not infrequently words that rime are found within the line . This is called internal rime . The following exam- ples illustrate internal as well as end rime : Once upon a midnight dreary , while I pondered weak and ...
... called end rime . But not infrequently words that rime are found within the line . This is called internal rime . The following exam- ples illustrate internal as well as end rime : Once upon a midnight dreary , while I pondered weak and ...
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... called etymological . The second reason for the occurrence of accent grows out of the impor- tance of the word in the line and is based on the general practice of stressing important words . Such reason for accent is called rhetorical ...
... called etymological . The second reason for the occurrence of accent grows out of the impor- tance of the word in the line and is based on the general practice of stressing important words . Such reason for accent is called rhetorical ...
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... called ascending ; and when the accented syllable comes first , followed by the unaccented , it is called descending . * THE NUMBER OF FEET IN A LINE These feet are usually grouped in certain definite patterns to form lines , and the ...
... called ascending ; and when the accented syllable comes first , followed by the unaccented , it is called descending . * THE NUMBER OF FEET IN A LINE These feet are usually grouped in certain definite patterns to form lines , and the ...
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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