A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... stanza after stanza of words ending with the sound ōre , places a constantly growing emphasis on these words and conse- quently on the ideas they present . Another sort of emphasis is illustrated by a stanza from Shelley's " To a ...
... stanza after stanza of words ending with the sound ōre , places a constantly growing emphasis on these words and conse- quently on the ideas they present . Another sort of emphasis is illustrated by a stanza from Shelley's " To a ...
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Gerald De Witt Sanders. CHAPTER VIII THE STANZA A STANZA is a group of lines arranged as a melodic unit ac- cording to a definite pattern . Since stanzas are made by grouping lines , obviously two lines are the fewest that a stanza may ...
Gerald De Witt Sanders. CHAPTER VIII THE STANZA A STANZA is a group of lines arranged as a melodic unit ac- cording to a definite pattern . Since stanzas are made by grouping lines , obviously two lines are the fewest that a stanza may ...
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... Stanzas of four lines , the most common of all stanza forms , are called quatrains . The most common forms are abab , abcb , and abba , although such other combinations occur as aaaa , aabb , aaab , abaa , aaba , and abbb . Two forms of ...
... Stanzas of four lines , the most common of all stanza forms , are called quatrains . The most common forms are abab , abcb , and abba , although such other combinations occur as aaaa , aabb , aaab , abaa , aaba , and abbb . Two forms of ...
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