A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... sense rhythm means recur- rence in time , and is applicable to any wave - like motion . Hence the ancients ... sense it operates also in verse , tending to reduce the language of everyday speech into patterns . In the narrow sense , as ...
... sense rhythm means recur- rence in time , and is applicable to any wave - like motion . Hence the ancients ... sense it operates also in verse , tending to reduce the language of everyday speech into patterns . In the narrow sense , as ...
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... sense , the first syllables of very , gather , and beauty and the second syl- lable of beloved are accented for etymological reasons ; names , dear , sounds , and sense are accented for rhetorical reasons ; and things and from for ...
... sense , the first syllables of very , gather , and beauty and the second syl- lable of beloved are accented for etymological reasons ; names , dear , sounds , and sense are accented for rhetorical reasons ; and things and from for ...
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... sense does not permit a pause at the end of a line so as to coincide with the metrical pause , the line is called " run - on . " In the following example all the lines are " run - on " : For I have revelled , when the sun was bright I ...
... sense does not permit a pause at the end of a line so as to coincide with the metrical pause , the line is called " run - on . " In the following example all the lines are " run - on " : For I have revelled , when the sun was bright I ...
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