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... beauty of architecture . This knowledge will increase our enjoyment of poetry , for it will give us a twofold interest , in the manner as well as in the matter . The more we know about versification , the better equipped we are to ...
... beauty of architecture . This knowledge will increase our enjoyment of poetry , for it will give us a twofold interest , in the manner as well as in the matter . The more we know about versification , the better equipped we are to ...
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... beauty . Every lover of poetry could cite numberless lyrics which delight him by their art alone , by their ! melody , by their merely external fascination , without .. regard to their content , to their ultimate meaning . In- deed ...
... beauty . Every lover of poetry could cite numberless lyrics which delight him by their art alone , by their ! melody , by their merely external fascination , without .. regard to their content , to their ultimate meaning . In- deed ...
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... beauty : - Thou canst not wave thy staff in air , Or dip thy paddle in the lake , But it carves the bow of beauty there , And the ripples iň rime the oar forsake . A part of the ease and melody of the last line of this quatrain is the ...
... beauty : - Thou canst not wave thy staff in air , Or dip thy paddle in the lake , But it carves the bow of beauty there , And the ripples iň rime the oar forsake . A part of the ease and melody of the last line of this quatrain is the ...
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... beauty imparted by the true vitality - are of less value than faith and works without love . The vox humana must be heard . That alone can give quality to a poem ; the most refined and artistic verse is cold and forceless without it . A ...
... beauty imparted by the true vitality - are of less value than faith and works without love . The vox humana must be heard . That alone can give quality to a poem ; the most refined and artistic verse is cold and forceless without it . A ...
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Brander Matthews. lyric apart and to discover how much of its ineffable and intangible beauty is due to the poet's artistry , to his mastery of alliteration and colliteration , to his exquisite feeling for vowel - sounds , to his firm ...
Brander Matthews. lyric apart and to discover how much of its ineffable and intangible beauty is due to the poet's artistry , to his mastery of alliteration and colliteration , to his exquisite feeling for vowel - sounds , to his firm ...
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accepted alliteration anapestic artist asserted attention Austin Dobson ballade beauty blank verse breath Browning Browning's Byron's called charm chosen colliteration composed consonants dactylic declared delight double rimes Dryden effect employed English poetry English verse example feel final line fixed form foot four lines hearer heart heptameter heroic couplet hexameter iambic pentameter iambs iambus kiss language less light long syllables Longfellow's Lowell lyric lyrist mate melody meter metrical metrist Milton never nursery-rimes o'er once pair of rimes passage pause play poem poet poet's poetic license Pope prose quatrain refrain repetition rhythm rhythmic rime-scheme rondeau Rose Shakspere Shakspere's short syllable single rime sometimes song sonnet sound speech spondee stanza substitution sweet Swinburne technic Tennyson thee theme Théodore de Banville thou thought tion trimeter triolet trochaic trochee true tune UNIVERS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA unrimed versification villanelle vowel vowel-sound wind words write