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... epigram . There is , for example , Gay's epitaph on himself : - Life is a jest , and all things show it . I thought so once , and now I know it . And here is the inscription which Pope wrote for the collar of a dog that belonged to the ...
... epigram . There is , for example , Gay's epitaph on himself : - Life is a jest , and all things show it . I thought so once , and now I know it . And here is the inscription which Pope wrote for the collar of a dog that belonged to the ...
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... epigram and ceases to be a poem . The idea or thought expressed must be so fully expressed as to leave no material for a second stanza . The theme that can be exhausted in the space of four lines is not easy to light upon . Lan- dor was ...
... epigram and ceases to be a poem . The idea or thought expressed must be so fully expressed as to leave no material for a second stanza . The theme that can be exhausted in the space of four lines is not easy to light upon . Lan- dor was ...
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... epigram rather than an epi- graph . Here are the vivacious four lines which Byron wrote on his wedding - day , January the second : - Here's a happy New Year ! but with reason , I beg you'll permit me to say Wish me many returns of the ...
... epigram rather than an epi- graph . Here are the vivacious four lines which Byron wrote on his wedding - day , January the second : - Here's a happy New Year ! but with reason , I beg you'll permit me to say Wish me many returns of the ...
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... epigram . To my thinking , this abruptness hurts many of Shakspere's beautiful poems of fourteen lines - for they are simply that . One must go to Milton , and Wordsworth , and Keats ( in three instances ) in order to find the highest ...
... epigram . To my thinking , this abruptness hurts many of Shakspere's beautiful poems of fourteen lines - for they are simply that . One must go to Milton , and Wordsworth , and Keats ( in three instances ) in order to find the highest ...
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... epigram ; the last three are usually wedded to serious or stately expression , and almost demand a vein of pathos.- EDMUND GOSSE : A Plea for Certain Exotic Forms of Verse . THE sonnet is the noblest of all fixed forms , with a special ...
... epigram ; the last three are usually wedded to serious or stately expression , and almost demand a vein of pathos.- EDMUND GOSSE : A Plea for Certain Exotic Forms of Verse . THE sonnet is the noblest of all fixed forms , with a special ...
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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