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... limits , however , the pattern tends to exert a species of magical or hypnotic effect , like that of a ritual incantation . The precise setting of these limits varies according to the taste of the age and of the individual reader or ...
... limits , however , the pattern tends to exert a species of magical or hypnotic effect , like that of a ritual incantation . The precise setting of these limits varies according to the taste of the age and of the individual reader or ...
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... limits to this procedure of brightening , since the resources of language are not boundless . Milton , recognizing these limits of his medium , shows himself to be a master of strict economy in exploiting its possibilities to the best ...
... limits to this procedure of brightening , since the resources of language are not boundless . Milton , recognizing these limits of his medium , shows himself to be a master of strict economy in exploiting its possibilities to the best ...
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... limits of the law . In British parliamentary terms , it is not an opposi- tion to its majesty the meter but an opposition of its majesty . As to the actual infringements of metrical laws , the discussion of such violations recalls Osip ...
... limits of the law . In British parliamentary terms , it is not an opposi- tion to its majesty the meter but an opposition of its majesty . As to the actual infringements of metrical laws , the discussion of such violations recalls Osip ...
Contents
Vowel and Consonant Patterns in Poetry 1953 David I Masson | 3 |
Some Parallels and Contrasts | 19 |
Some English Sonnets 1960 | 33 |
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adjectives alliteration analysis assonance blank verse caesura called century Chatman clausal consonants context contrast couplets criticism decoding definition devices discourse dominant Donne Donne's effect elements emotive end-stopped English enjambment example expression fact foregrounding formal function grammatical I. A. Richards iambic iambic pentameter ictus important instance interpretation Keats Kenyon Review kind lexical lexical stress linguistic literary literature logical meaning metaphor meter metre metrical metrists Milton motif nature norm nouns object occur octet passage pattern perhaps period phonemic phrasal phrase plurisign poem poet poet's poetic language poetry Pope possible problem prose prosody question reader relation rhetorical rhyme rhythm seems semantic sense sentence sequence sestet sonnet sound speech Spenser stanzas statement stress structure style stylistic suggest suprasegmental syllables syntactic syntax theme theory thing thought tion trochee verbal verbs verse vowels W. K. Wimsatt words Wordsworth writers