A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... feet are in the line , ( 3 ) note any substitution for a basic foot , ( 4 ) report any excess or defect of unstressed syl- lables at the beginning or end of a line , ( 5 ) tell the type of final stress , ( 6 ) note the position of the ...
... feet are in the line , ( 3 ) note any substitution for a basic foot , ( 4 ) report any excess or defect of unstressed syl- lables at the beginning or end of a line , ( 5 ) tell the type of final stress , ( 6 ) note the position of the ...
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... FEET IN A LINE These feet are usually grouped in certain definite patterns to form lines , and the lines named according to the number of feet in each . Thus when there is one foot to the line the verse is called monometer ; when there ...
... FEET IN A LINE These feet are usually grouped in certain definite patterns to form lines , and the lines named according to the number of feet in each . Thus when there is one foot to the line the verse is called monometer ; when there ...
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... feet within the line . Efforts to scan free verse , in fact , lead nowhere , as one line may have iambs , trochees , spondees , and anapests , or any other combination of feet . The idea behind free verse is to free poetry of conformity ...
... feet within the line . Efforts to scan free verse , in fact , lead nowhere , as one line may have iambs , trochees , spondees , and anapests , or any other combination of feet . The idea behind free verse is to free poetry of conformity ...
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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