A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... structure is but a help to a more complete comprehension of the content . Since this is true , we shall first consider how to study the content of a poem , and in later chapters give attention to its form and structure . DISCOVERING THE ...
... structure is but a help to a more complete comprehension of the content . Since this is true , we shall first consider how to study the content of a poem , and in later chapters give attention to its form and structure . DISCOVERING THE ...
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... structure , while rules were laid down for its correct formation . These resulted in more care being devoted to the form , with the consequent elimination of much of the looseness of structure which marked the sonnets of the majority of ...
... structure , while rules were laid down for its correct formation . These resulted in more care being devoted to the form , with the consequent elimination of much of the looseness of structure which marked the sonnets of the majority of ...
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... structure with the first , and the second epode with the first epode ; and the third part is identical in structure with the two preceding parts . The number of parts an ode might have was flexible , but each part had to be complete ...
... structure with the first , and the second epode with the first epode ; and the third part is identical in structure with the two preceding parts . The number of parts an ode might have was flexible , but each part had to be complete ...
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