A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... 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 importance in producing accent as the term is used in ...
... 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 importance in producing accent as the term is used in ...
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... stressed syllables . In actual practice there are frequent modifica- tions of this system in even the most metrical verse , while in free verse it scarcely applies at all . Yet it is so much the normal usage ... stress [ 42 ] A POETRY PRIMER.
... stressed syllables . In actual practice there are frequent modifica- tions of this system in even the most metrical verse , while in free verse it scarcely applies at all . Yet it is so much the normal usage ... stress [ 42 ] A POETRY PRIMER.
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... stress verse : The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell , | a Hell of Heaven . -MILTON , Paradise Lost , I Six - stress verse : Somewhat apart from the village , and nearer the Basin of Minas , Benedict ...
... stress verse : The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell , | a Hell of Heaven . -MILTON , Paradise Lost , I Six - stress verse : Somewhat apart from the village , and nearer the Basin of Minas , Benedict ...
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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