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... meters are rare ; be sure to distinguish between the common rising meter which may have a hypermetrical feminine end- ing , and true falling meter , in which trochees or dactyls are clearly the governing feet : Falling : By the shores ...
... meters are rare ; be sure to distinguish between the common rising meter which may have a hypermetrical feminine end- ing , and true falling meter , in which trochees or dactyls are clearly the governing feet : Falling : By the shores ...
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... meter than iambic , however , the meter stands out prominently - and the reader's tendency is to make the words fit the rhythm , even if sense is sacrificed . For this reason , the other meters tend to be used pri- marily for songs ...
... meter than iambic , however , the meter stands out prominently - and the reader's tendency is to make the words fit the rhythm , even if sense is sacrificed . For this reason , the other meters tend to be used pri- marily for songs ...
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... meter refers to the " ideal " design of stresses according to some preconceived formula . Any passage of good poetry illustrates interaction between rhythm and meter in these senses . Rising meter that in which the dominant feet are ...
... meter refers to the " ideal " design of stresses according to some preconceived formula . Any passage of good poetry illustrates interaction between rhythm and meter in these senses . Rising meter that in which the dominant feet are ...
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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