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... feet are all you need really concern your- self with for scanning most English verse . The dactyl ( ~~ ) and amphibrach ( ~~ ) occur occasionally , and prosodists list such other feet as the amphimacer ( / _ / ) , tribrach ( ~ _ ...
... feet are all you need really concern your- self with for scanning most English verse . The dactyl ( ~~ ) and amphibrach ( ~~ ) occur occasionally , and prosodists list such other feet as the amphimacer ( / _ / ) , tribrach ( ~ _ ...
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... feet , but it crows so loudly with its long syl- lables the actor was probably able to stretch it out in ... feet of the same type- other than iambs - in succession ? How many of the feet I have marked pyrrhics could be read as iambs ...
... feet , but it crows so loudly with its long syl- lables the actor was probably able to stretch it out in ... feet of the same type- other than iambs - in succession ? How many of the feet I have marked pyrrhics could be read as iambs ...
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... feet unless it is clear that the poet is deliberately experimenting with an unusual Classical meter . See pp . 66-76 . Free verse ( sometimes called vers libre ) , poctry in which line length is not determined by accentual - syllabic feet ...
... feet unless it is clear that the poet is deliberately experimenting with an unusual Classical meter . See pp . 66-76 . Free verse ( sometimes called vers libre ) , poctry in which line length is not determined by accentual - syllabic feet ...
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poetry and use | 11 |
poetry and truth | 20 |
Questions for Study | 34 |
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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