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... feel it hope- less to convey the effect of a poem or passage in any form but its own . " There is benefit , therefore , for all of us in an en- deavor to understand the mechanism of the poet's art , to gain an elementary acquaintance ...
... feel it hope- less to convey the effect of a poem or passage in any form but its own . " There is benefit , therefore , for all of us in an en- deavor to understand the mechanism of the poet's art , to gain an elementary acquaintance ...
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... feel deeply his charm and his power . The more we know , the better we shall understand the real nature of poetic inspiration . It is very natural , " so Reynolds declared in another of his " Discourses on Painting , " " for those who ...
... feel deeply his charm and his power . The more we know , the better we shall understand the real nature of poetic inspiration . It is very natural , " so Reynolds declared in another of his " Discourses on Painting , " " for those who ...
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... feeling for rhythm ; in time their successors had the solid support of tradition ; and to - day every poet can profit by a study of the means whereby his great predecessors wrought their marvels . No doubt , delicacy of ear still guides ...
... feeling for rhythm ; in time their successors had the solid support of tradition ; and to - day every poet can profit by a study of the means whereby his great predecessors wrought their marvels . No doubt , delicacy of ear still guides ...
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... feeling it , even more perhaps than the gift for feeling the value of style , is the specific gift for poetry , as dis- tinguished from the other arts . " And Leigh Hunt went even further , for he insisted that " versification itself ...
... feeling it , even more perhaps than the gift for feeling the value of style , is the specific gift for poetry , as dis- tinguished from the other arts . " And Leigh Hunt went even further , for he insisted that " versification itself ...
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... feel its full force until we speak it our- selves or hear it from others . It might almost be as- serted that poetry is like music , in which the notation in black and white is only a device to preserve it and to transmit it ; and that ...
... feel its full force until we speak it our- selves or hear it from others . It might almost be as- serted that poetry is like music , in which the notation in black and white is only a device to preserve it and to transmit it ; and that ...
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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