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... sonnet does not make sense and ought to drive us back to the OED . Cupid shoving a piece of chain ( the most common modern meaning of " link " ) in Dorinda's face might do on first read- ing of the Sackville poem but sooner or later we ...
... sonnet does not make sense and ought to drive us back to the OED . Cupid shoving a piece of chain ( the most common modern meaning of " link " ) in Dorinda's face might do on first read- ing of the Sackville poem but sooner or later we ...
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... sonnet . Actually there are a number of varieties of sonnets , the Petrarchan or Italian , the Shakespearean or English , and several sub - species . They all have in common the basic requirement of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter ...
... sonnet . Actually there are a number of varieties of sonnets , the Petrarchan or Italian , the Shakespearean or English , and several sub - species . They all have in common the basic requirement of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter ...
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... sonnet ( which Milton used in only half of his sonnets , the rest being regular ) is one that attempts to deny the sonnet's nor- mal rhythm rather than to take advantage of it . The purpose of such an attempt would seem to be to create ...
... sonnet ( which Milton used in only half of his sonnets , the rest being regular ) is one that attempts to deny the sonnet's nor- mal rhythm rather than to take advantage of it . The purpose of such an attempt would seem to be to create ...
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A-term A. E. Housman abstract accent allegory alliteration allusions appear assonance beauty bird called catalectic clause comparison complex connotations context couplet Coy Mistress create creative image death denotation difficult discussed E. E. Cummings effect Emily Dickinson emotional emphasis English example experience eyes fact feet final flea Gerard Manley Hopkins heart iambic iambic pentameter idea implied interaction involved literal logical meaning ment merely metaphor meter metrical metrical foot Mither nature night nightingales noun passage perhaps phrase poem poet poetry possible precise prose statement prose stress question reader reading reordered version repeated repetition rhyme Robert Bridges rose sense sestina simile snow song sonnet soul sound patterns speaker spring suggests sweet syllables symbol syntactical syntax T. S. Eliot thee things third stanza thou thought tion understanding verb verbal rhythms W. B. Yeats word order Yeats