A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... metrical scheme which frequently does not coincide with rhetorical divi- sions . Yet many persons read verse according to the metrical ar- rangement , pausing at the end of each line , whether a natural pause comes there or not , and in ...
... metrical scheme which frequently does not coincide with rhetorical divi- sions . Yet many persons read verse according to the metrical ar- rangement , pausing at the end of each line , whether a natural pause comes there or not , and in ...
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... metrical reasons . TIME INTERVALS In addition to the occurrence of accent , a fundamental prin- ciple of metre is that these accents shall recur at fairly regular time intervals . The tendency in English verse is for the accent to recur ...
... metrical reasons . TIME INTERVALS In addition to the occurrence of accent , a fundamental prin- ciple of metre is that these accents shall recur at fairly regular time intervals . The tendency in English verse is for the accent to recur ...
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... metrical grouping . They are of varying length , a line of two feet , for in- stance , being followed perhaps by one of six , then nine , then three , and so on . In addition to irregularity in the matter of length , the lines are made ...
... metrical grouping . They are of varying length , a line of two feet , for in- stance , being followed perhaps by one of six , then nine , then three , and so on . In addition to irregularity in the matter of length , the lines are made ...
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