A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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Page 44
... foot , ( 2 ) tell how many 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 ) ...
... foot , ( 2 ) tell how many 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 ) ...
Page 45
... foot to the line the verse is called monometer ; when there are two feet , dimeter ; when three feet , trimeter ; when four feet , tetrameter ; when five feet , pentameter ; when ... FOOT A whole poem written in [ 45 ] THE FOOT AND THE LINE.
... foot to the line the verse is called monometer ; when there are two feet , dimeter ; when three feet , trimeter ; when four feet , tetrameter ; when five feet , pentameter ; when ... FOOT A whole poem written in [ 45 ] THE FOOT AND THE LINE.
Page 91
... foot , the , 44 , 46 Quiller - Couch , Sir Arthur , 88 Quantity of syllables , 41 Quatrain , the , 51 Quintain , the , 52 Reading a poem , 28 Reed , E. B. , 87 Reeves , J. B. , 87 Reflective poetry , 37 Restraint , an element of poetry ...
... foot , the , 44 , 46 Quiller - Couch , Sir Arthur , 88 Quantity of syllables , 41 Quatrain , the , 51 Quintain , the , 52 Reading a poem , 28 Reed , E. B. , 87 Reeves , J. B. , 87 Reflective poetry , 37 Restraint , an element of poetry ...
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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