A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... produces poetry of high merit . This is why those who grind out verse daily to meet some particular demand so rarely produce anything of value . Writing a poem a day may be good practice in skill for a beginner , but it is rare indeed ...
... produces poetry of high merit . This is why those who grind out verse daily to meet some particular demand so rarely produce anything of value . Writing a poem a day may be good practice in skill for a beginner , but it is rare indeed ...
Page 21
... produce melody and harmony , but they serve also to emphasize certain elements of verse , and thus have a double ... producing the effects the sense requires . Thus they make use of long vowels to suggest slow and deliberate movement and ...
... produce melody and harmony , but they serve also to emphasize certain elements of verse , and thus have a double ... producing the effects the sense requires . Thus they make use of long vowels to suggest slow and deliberate movement and ...
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... producing accent , although of less significance than stress , it should not be ignored . The third cause of accent is stress , by which is meant the intensity or force with which a syllable is spoken . This is the element of paramount ...
... producing accent , although of less significance than stress , it should not be ignored . The third cause of accent is stress , by which is meant the intensity or force with which a syllable is spoken . This is the element of paramount ...
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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