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... metre and rhythm for these terms are not synonymous . As Mr. George Sampson has said , " Metre is the 37 STYLE : VERSIFICATION.
... metre and rhythm for these terms are not synonymous . As Mr. George Sampson has said , " Metre is the 37 STYLE : VERSIFICATION.
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... Metre is the mechanical basis of the line ; rhythm is the full and free expression of the poet's thought , based upon , but often transcending , metrical requirements . A great poet uses metre as his servant , preserving a metrical ...
... Metre is the mechanical basis of the line ; rhythm is the full and free expression of the poet's thought , based upon , but often transcending , metrical requirements . A great poet uses metre as his servant , preserving a metrical ...
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... metre , Milton has achieved a new structure . The jerkiness which Shakespeare used to convey Leontes ' mental unrest would have been inappropriate to Milton's purpose : the more colloquial manner of the " Henry IV " passage would have ...
... metre , Milton has achieved a new structure . The jerkiness which Shakespeare used to convey Leontes ' mental unrest would have been inappropriate to Milton's purpose : the more colloquial manner of the " Henry IV " passage would have ...
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A. E. Housman accent adjectives appeal beauty blank verse blow Bonny Dundee brave CHAPTER clear Coleridge colour couplet Danny Deever dark death delight diction doth duple Echoing Green emotions English example expression eyes final judgement flowers following passages free verse give green hand hath heart heaven iambic pentameters imagery images imagination Johnson judge Keats light look Lyrical melody metre metrical Milton mind modern moon mountains nature neo-Classical never night o'er Paradise Lost pattern Petrarcan pleasure poem poet poet's attitude poet's purpose prosody reader rest restricted poetry rhythmic rime-scheme rimes Romantics round scansion sense sestet Shakespeare Shakespearian silver sing skies song sonnet soul sound Spring sprung rhythm stanzas statement stress style sweet syllables system of scansion T. S. Eliot thee theme things thou thought truth versification whole wind Winter's Tale words Wordsworth write