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... alliteration of r's make the line speed after the initial spondee . Playful images are swept away , now , as bright dalliance darkens to a terrifying sarcasm , as though the intensely personal , macabre vision were drawn like a knife to ...
... alliteration of r's make the line speed after the initial spondee . Playful images are swept away , now , as bright dalliance darkens to a terrifying sarcasm , as though the intensely personal , macabre vision were drawn like a knife to ...
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... alliteration , antithetical struc- tures , balanced lines , inversions and other euphuistic devices . As he matured he grew increasingly liberal in his handling of blank verse ; in scanning his late plays we often have difficulty in ...
... alliteration , antithetical struc- tures , balanced lines , inversions and other euphuistic devices . As he matured he grew increasingly liberal in his handling of blank verse ; in scanning his late plays we often have difficulty in ...
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... alliteration , assonance ) . Rhyme may be masculine or feminine . Usually it occurs at line - endings , but there may be patterned or unpatterned internal rhyme . patterned ( from Robert Service's " The Cremation of Sam McGee " ) : Now ...
... alliteration , assonance ) . Rhyme may be masculine or feminine . Usually it occurs at line - endings , but there may be patterned or unpatterned internal rhyme . patterned ( from Robert Service's " The Cremation of Sam McGee " ) : Now ...
Contents
poetry and use | 11 |
poetry and truth | 20 |
Questions for Study | 34 |
Copyright | |
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accents anapests beat beauty bird blank verse break breath caesura called Chromis couplet dark dead death DOLLABELLA DOTO dramatic dream Dylan Thomas DYNAMENE Eliot English enjambment experience eyes feel feet free verse Frost Ginsberg hand hear heart iambic iambic pentameter iambs imagery imagination language light look lyric madam meaning meter metrical Milton mind moon never night passage pattern pentameter phrase play poem poet poetic poetry prose Prufrock quatrain reader REFERENCES rhyme rhythm Richard Wilbur Robert Robert Lowell scansion seems sense Shakespeare Silas sing song sonnet soul sound speak speech spondee stanza stress strophe suggests sweet syllables symbolic T. S. Eliot TEGEUS tell thee things thou thought tion tradition trochee truth turn verse paragraphs Virilius voice W. D. Snodgrass Warren wind words writing