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... feeling , the analysis of all the tensions involved in the situation until there is the final clarifica- tion of feeling . In English that is not so easy to achieve because there are 2 Form and Style in Poetry ( London , 1928 ) , pp ...
... feeling , the analysis of all the tensions involved in the situation until there is the final clarifica- tion of feeling . In English that is not so easy to achieve because there are 2 Form and Style in Poetry ( London , 1928 ) , pp ...
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... feeling by whether the line is built on a monosyllabic pattern of a single unfolding sentence or on inward concentration of contempla- tion on a single idea , such as that of God as light , the idea of essence increate . Sometimes he ...
... feeling by whether the line is built on a monosyllabic pattern of a single unfolding sentence or on inward concentration of contempla- tion on a single idea , such as that of God as light , the idea of essence increate . Sometimes he ...
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... feeling gradually , in a concentrated statement often with something of the epigrammatic in it . Usually or commonly ... feeling for the madrigal will tie up with the feeling for the Greek epigram and Imagist poetry . Shakespeare's songs ...
... feeling gradually , in a concentrated statement often with something of the epigrammatic in it . Usually or commonly ... feeling for the madrigal will tie up with the feeling for the Greek epigram and Imagist poetry . Shakespeare's songs ...
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