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... consider the several departments of poetry , - epic and lyric and dramatic . It does not deal with simile and metaphor , nor does it seek to open the mind of the student to the nobler beauties of poetry . It is intended to be an ...
... consider the several departments of poetry , - epic and lyric and dramatic . It does not deal with simile and metaphor , nor does it seek to open the mind of the student to the nobler beauties of poetry . It is intended to be an ...
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... consider it as a kind of magic . They who have never observed the gradation by which art is acquired , who see only what is the full result of long labor and application of an infinite number and in- finite variety of acts , are apt to ...
... consider it as a kind of magic . They who have never observed the gradation by which art is acquired , who see only what is the full result of long labor and application of an infinite number and in- finite variety of acts , are apt to ...
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... consider the conflicting theories of English prosody . He will not be confused by constant references to the ferent metrical system which was employed by the Greek and the Latin poets . These things are discussed at length in many other ...
... consider the conflicting theories of English prosody . He will not be confused by constant references to the ferent metrical system which was employed by the Greek and the Latin poets . These things are discussed at length in many other ...
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... consider his instrument , and our in- terest is thereby at once distracted from his meaning . Therefore , it is safer for the poet to vary his lines very cautiously and to keep in mind always the limitations of the human ear , since it ...
... consider his instrument , and our in- terest is thereby at once distracted from his meaning . Therefore , it is safer for the poet to vary his lines very cautiously and to keep in mind always the limitations of the human ear , since it ...
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... consider " Yankee Doodle " and " God Save the King , " the " Marseillaise " and " What is the German Fatherland ? " " Nothing in poetry , " Dr. Holmes in- sisted , " is widely popular that is not calculated with strict reference to the ...
... consider " Yankee Doodle " and " God Save the King , " the " Marseillaise " and " What is the German Fatherland ? " " Nothing in poetry , " Dr. Holmes in- sisted , " is widely popular that is not calculated with strict reference to the ...
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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