A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... FREE VERSE -TENNYSON , " The Passing of Arthur " Free verse is poetry of irregular metre and usually without rime . The lines conform rather to rhetorical than to metrical grouping . They are of varying length , a line of two feet , for ...
... FREE VERSE -TENNYSON , " The Passing of Arthur " Free verse is poetry of irregular metre and usually without rime . The lines conform rather to rhetorical than to metrical grouping . They are of varying length , a line of two feet , for ...
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... free verse does not depend on metre or , usually , rime , it employs all the other elements of tone quality . Good free verse , in fact , because it discards certain poetic principles , has all the more need for making use of others if ...
... free verse does not depend on metre or , usually , rime , it employs all the other elements of tone quality . Good free verse , in fact , because it discards certain poetic principles , has all the more need for making use of others if ...
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... free verse as a legitimate form of poetry have come from its own proponents , the first being the militant attitude of little groups who were determined to battle for free verse long after the need to battle was over , and the second ...
... free verse as a legitimate form of poetry have come from its own proponents , the first being the militant attitude of little groups who were determined to battle for free verse long after the need to battle was over , and the second ...
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