A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... night ' tis my pillow white , While I sleep in the arms of the blast . Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers , Lightning my pilot sits ; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder . It struggles and howls at fits . Still another way ...
... night ' tis my pillow white , While I sleep in the arms of the blast . Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers , Lightning my pilot sits ; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder . It struggles and howls at fits . Still another way ...
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... Night " More sustained examples are Poe's " Bells , " Browning's " How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix , " and Vachel Lindsay's " Sante - Fé Trail . " RIME The most effective grouping of vowels and consonants to give ...
... Night " More sustained examples are Poe's " Bells , " Browning's " How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix , " and Vachel Lindsay's " Sante - Fé Trail . " RIME The most effective grouping of vowels and consonants to give ...
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... night Underneath my window plaineth ? It is one who from thy sight Being , ah , exiled , disdaineth Every other vulgar light . 1 -SIR PHILIP SIDNEY , " Eleventh Song " ( ababb ) We look before and after And pine for what is not : Our ...
... night Underneath my window plaineth ? It is one who from thy sight Being , ah , exiled , disdaineth Every other vulgar light . 1 -SIR PHILIP SIDNEY , " Eleventh Song " ( ababb ) We look before and after And pine for what is not : Our ...
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