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... beginning of an iambic line ( as , " Faire is , " ) is perhaps the most common variation in iambic verse . Don't let that deceive you into thinking the line is trochaic . Another common confusion is the so - called " headless " line ...
... beginning of an iambic line ( as , " Faire is , " ) is perhaps the most common variation in iambic verse . Don't let that deceive you into thinking the line is trochaic . Another common confusion is the so - called " headless " line ...
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... beginning with the abba quatrain , indulging in a formal , balanced rhetoric , concluding with the dignity of its final couplets . Like " The Wood - Pile , " the poem begins with a succession of literal details . Against the stated calm ...
... beginning with the abba quatrain , indulging in a formal , balanced rhetoric , concluding with the dignity of its final couplets . Like " The Wood - Pile , " the poem begins with a succession of literal details . Against the stated calm ...
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... beginning Stanza 5 and Para- graph 5 - as , with that word , the tension between the stanza and paragraph forms is resolved . It is a " bitter love " that accepts the body , the " world's hunks and colors , " but it is a comfortable ...
... beginning Stanza 5 and Para- graph 5 - as , with that word , the tension between the stanza and paragraph forms is resolved . It is a " bitter love " that accepts the body , the " world's hunks and colors , " but it is a comfortable ...
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