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Page 53
... repetition in dead and dieu , the repetition of rt , and the monosyllables set against dissyllables . ยท " Trem- In " You that look pale and tremble at this chance , " there are high consonants in the middle . The line has a clear double ...
... repetition in dead and dieu , the repetition of rt , and the monosyllables set against dissyllables . ยท " Trem- In " You that look pale and tremble at this chance , " there are high consonants in the middle . The line has a clear double ...
Page 74
... repetition of never , a line of almost pure vowels , and the repetition of falling rhythm . There is the solemn fall of comes , comes , the repetition of the e , preparation for the final 1 , and the movement from el to o to al . The ...
... repetition of never , a line of almost pure vowels , and the repetition of falling rhythm . There is the solemn fall of comes , comes , the repetition of the e , preparation for the final 1 , and the movement from el to o to al . The ...
Page 216
... repetition is quite widely scattered there . The low - pitched rhythm of the philosophic question is not marked out . In the next section the meter almost yields to the repetition of certain words , which become symbols . Here there is ...
... repetition is quite widely scattered there . The low - pitched rhythm of the philosophic question is not marked out . In the next section the meter almost yields to the repetition of certain words , which become symbols . Here there is ...
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