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... stanzas prescribed by the instructor will not tend to puff up the young writer with the conceit that he is a poet . On the contrary , it is likely to take down his vanity by showing him how easy it is to acquire the elements of verse ...
... stanzas prescribed by the instructor will not tend to puff up the young writer with the conceit that he is a poet . On the contrary , it is likely to take down his vanity by showing him how easy it is to acquire the elements of verse ...
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... STANZA VII . THE SONNET VIII . OTHER FIXED FORMS IX . RIMELESS STANZAS X. THE COUPLET XI . BLANK VERSE XII . POETIC LICENSE . APPENDIX INDEX · . 1 8 31 49 73 102 125 • 144 · 176 • 200 • 225 • 244 A : SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY 263 B ...
... STANZA VII . THE SONNET VIII . OTHER FIXED FORMS IX . RIMELESS STANZAS X. THE COUPLET XI . BLANK VERSE XII . POETIC LICENSE . APPENDIX INDEX · . 1 8 31 49 73 102 125 • 144 · 176 • 200 • 225 • 244 A : SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY 263 B ...
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... stanza , with due regard to its inten- tion , we feel that each of the four lines is equal in the time of delivery and in the number of beats . Thus there is a harmonious and satisfactory effect on the ear , although the eye may inform ...
... stanza , with due regard to its inten- tion , we feel that each of the four lines is equal in the time of delivery and in the number of beats . Thus there is a harmonious and satisfactory effect on the ear , although the eye may inform ...
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... stanza and in Browning's : syllables that may seem to be suppressed in one line sometimes appear in another . At the ... stanzas as wholes . These suppressions and insertions may seem abnormal to the eye which is looking for exact ...
... stanza and in Browning's : syllables that may seem to be suppressed in one line sometimes appear in another . At the ... stanzas as wholes . These suppressions and insertions may seem abnormal to the eye which is looking for exact ...
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... stanza of one of Poe's most beautiful lyrics , " For Annie " : - Thank Heaven ! the crisis , The danger is past , And the lingering illness Is over at last And the fever called " Living " Is conquered at last . The ear seizes the rhythm ...
... stanza of one of Poe's most beautiful lyrics , " For Annie " : - Thank Heaven ! the crisis , The danger is past , And the lingering illness Is over at last And the fever called " Living " Is conquered at last . The ear seizes the rhythm ...
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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