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... dipodic verse , 2 It is not a strict but he does not feel that the ballads are all dipodic . The ballad line is written as seven measures , and the stanza form is xaxa or abcb . The rhythm is often xxx'x ' // x ' x X гло double rising ...
... dipodic verse , 2 It is not a strict but he does not feel that the ballads are all dipodic . The ballad line is written as seven measures , and the stanza form is xaxa or abcb . The rhythm is often xxx'x ' // x ' x X гло double rising ...
Page 139
... dipodic . The ballad form is used rather frequently by Kip- ling , who owes something to the chantey , which is akin to the ballad . There is usually a very heavy break in the middle of the line . The Envoy , " When Earth's last picture ...
... dipodic . The ballad form is used rather frequently by Kip- ling , who owes something to the chantey , which is akin to the ballad . There is usually a very heavy break in the middle of the line . The Envoy , " When Earth's last picture ...
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... dipodic verse . Wordsworth knew the ballads . lines . Herrick , who has wonderful classic control , omits a measure in the seventh line of A Nuptiall Song . He can end the line in the middle of a word because he has established the ...
... dipodic verse . Wordsworth knew the ballads . lines . Herrick , who has wonderful classic control , omits a measure in the seventh line of A Nuptiall Song . He can end the line in the middle of a word because he has established the ...
Common terms and phrases
accent alliteration anapest balance beauty beginning blank verse caesura canzone combination consonants contrast couplet create developed dipodic dissyllables distinctive Donne Donne's Dryden effect elements Eliot emphasis end-stopped English verse epic falling rhythm feeling formal free verse gives a sense Greek half-line Hopkins individual lines inversion last line length light logic lyric madrigal ment meter metrical pattern metrists Milton Miss Wallerstein monosyllables move movement ottava ottava rima paragraph passage pause pentameter phrase Pindaric play poem poetry poets polysyllables Pope prose Prosody repeated repetition rhetoric rhyme words run-on line scansion sestina Shakespeare short lines single line song sonnet Sonnet 16 speech Spenser spondees sprung rhythm stress strong structure suggests suppressed beat syllable T. S. Eliot Tamburlaine Tennyson tension tetrameter thee theory thing thou thought tion tradition tremendous trimeter triple falling triple rising rhythm unstressed syllables variation vowels weight whole