A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... hath seyn bifore to be . Wherfor I seye , that from eterne if he Hath wist biforn our thought eek as our deed , We have no free chois , as these clerkes rede . -CHAUCER , Troilus and Criseyde A great many rime - schemes are possible in ...
... hath seyn bifore to be . Wherfor I seye , that from eterne if he Hath wist biforn our thought eek as our deed , We have no free chois , as these clerkes rede . -CHAUCER , Troilus and Criseyde A great many rime - schemes are possible in ...
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... hath clad the hill , and eke the vale : The nightingale with feathers new she sings ; The turtle to her mate hath told her tale ; Summer is come , for every spray now springs , The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in ...
... hath clad the hill , and eke the vale : The nightingale with feathers new she sings ; The turtle to her mate hath told her tale ; Summer is come , for every spray now springs , The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in ...
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... hath passed away a glory from the earth . III Now , while the birds thus sing a joyous song , And while the young lambs bound As to the tabor's sound , To me alone there came a thought of grief : A timely utterance gave that thought ...
... hath passed away a glory from the earth . III Now , while the birds thus sing a joyous song , And while the young lambs bound As to the tabor's sound , To me alone there came a thought of grief : A timely utterance gave that thought ...
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