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... break in thought ; rather , the three quatrains are more or less parallel , “ answered " by the couplet . But more often than not Shakespeare , for example , has a major break after the octave and uses the couplet for a sub - unit ...
... break in thought ; rather , the three quatrains are more or less parallel , “ answered " by the couplet . But more often than not Shakespeare , for example , has a major break after the octave and uses the couplet for a sub - unit ...
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... Break O break open till they break the town And show the children to green fields , and make their world Run azure on gold sands , and let their tongues 30 Run naked into books , the white and green leaves open History theirs whose ...
... Break O break open till they break the town And show the children to green fields , and make their world Run azure on gold sands , and let their tongues 30 Run naked into books , the white and green leaves open History theirs whose ...
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... Break , break , On thy cold break , | / / gray stones , O Sea ! Sea ! Narrative a summary of events which took place ( or might have taken place ) ; a story , as distinguished from the presentation of events as though they were ...
... Break , break , On thy cold break , | / / gray stones , O Sea ! Sea ! Narrative a summary of events which took place ( or might have taken place ) ; a story , as distinguished from the presentation of events as though they were ...
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