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... force , is vibratory ; that vibrations , and nothing else , convey through the body the look and voice of na- ture to the soul ; that thus alone can one incarnate individuality ad- dress its fellow ; that , to use old Bunyan's imagery ...
... force , is vibratory ; that vibrations , and nothing else , convey through the body the look and voice of na- ture to the soul ; that thus alone can one incarnate individuality ad- dress its fellow ; that , to use old Bunyan's imagery ...
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... 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 like music ...
... 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 like music ...
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... force , is vibratory ; that vibrations , and nothing else , convey through the body the look and voice of na- ture to the soul ; that thus alone can one incarnate individuality ad- dress its fellow ; that , to use old Bunyan's imagery ...
... force , is vibratory ; that vibrations , and nothing else , convey through the body the look and voice of na- ture to the soul ; that thus alone can one incarnate individuality ad- dress its fellow ; that , to use old Bunyan's imagery ...
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... 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 like music ...
... 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 like music ...
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... forces us to perceive his pattern by limiting it , as Dickens does , he loses the ample freedom proper to prose , and he suffers this loss without achieving the special merit of verse . In prose , our ear delights in the vague ...
... forces us to perceive his pattern by limiting it , as Dickens does , he loses the ample freedom proper to prose , and he suffers this loss without achieving the special merit of verse . In prose , our ear delights in the vague ...
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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