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... stress has no necessary relationship to " importance . " " Look " is obviously an important word in the sen- tence , but for the command to make sense you hit the " now " with a heavier stress . ) " Don't look , now , " puts the stress ...
... stress has no necessary relationship to " importance . " " Look " is obviously an important word in the sen- tence , but for the command to make sense you hit the " now " with a heavier stress . ) " Don't look , now , " puts the stress ...
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... stress ; you will intuitively pass rapidly over unstressed syllables to reach those which can take a stress . The norm in English verse is alternating stress . This ratio may be increased with two or more syllables being stressed in ...
... stress ; you will intuitively pass rapidly over unstressed syllables to reach those which can take a stress . The norm in English verse is alternating stress . This ratio may be increased with two or more syllables being stressed in ...
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... stress count , but by a mysterious combination of the two . A case can be made that the peculiar power of English poetry arises from that ambiguity in the combination of syllable and stress as a measure . One might ask why - even today ...
... stress count , but by a mysterious combination of the two . A case can be made that the peculiar power of English poetry arises from that ambiguity in the combination of syllable and stress as a measure . One might ask why - even today ...
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