A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... final analysis figures of speech are short cuts to the transmission of ac- curate ideas and exact images , conveying to us a definite impression of something with which we are likely to be unfamiliar , through a swift allusion or ...
... final analysis figures of speech are short cuts to the transmission of ac- curate ideas and exact images , conveying to us a definite impression of something with which we are likely to be unfamiliar , through a swift allusion or ...
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... final consonant sounds when the vowel sounds differ , as mile , till , or as in the lines : Proud and unafraid he stood , Nor said a word to those around . Like assonance , it is usually supplementary to rime , and is employed | less ...
... final consonant sounds when the vowel sounds differ , as mile , till , or as in the lines : Proud and unafraid he stood , Nor said a word to those around . Like assonance , it is usually supplementary to rime , and is employed | less ...
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... final stress , ( 6 ) note the position of the cesura when it occurs , and ( 7 ) tell whether the line is " end - stopped " or " run - on . " BASIC FEET The foot , which is the unit used in measuring a line of poetry , consists of a ...
... final stress , ( 6 ) note the position of the cesura when it occurs , and ( 7 ) tell whether the line is " end - stopped " or " run - on . " BASIC FEET The foot , which is the unit used in measuring a line of poetry , consists of a ...
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