Metrical Principles of English Poetry: A Course of Lectures by Professor Ruth Wallerstein |
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... last syllable . Side by side with that , in Don Juan , are lyric passages like the lament for Haidée . There is melody within the individual line . The last line , which one hears distinctly because it closes with a couplet , gives the ...
... last syllable . Side by side with that , in Don Juan , are lyric passages like the lament for Haidée . There is melody within the individual line . The last line , which one hears distinctly because it closes with a couplet , gives the ...
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... last line resolves them . The first four lines rhyme abab , where a is the dominant and b the modifier . Line 5 , which combines the two earlier rhythms , rhymes with line 6 , which repeats the pattern of line 5. Lines 7 and 8 rhyme and ...
... last line resolves them . The first four lines rhyme abab , where a is the dominant and b the modifier . Line 5 , which combines the two earlier rhythms , rhymes with line 6 , which repeats the pattern of line 5. Lines 7 and 8 rhyme and ...
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... line . In one or two stanzas it comes in the last or second to last measure instead of the first . ( This is almost common in Greek poetry . ) The stanza of Yeats's In Memory of Major Robert Gregory belongs to the class of the ottava ...
... line . In one or two stanzas it comes in the last or second to last measure instead of the first . ( This is almost common in Greek poetry . ) The stanza of Yeats's In Memory of Major Robert Gregory belongs to the class of the ottava ...
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