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... syllables of prose and forty to fifty in the hundred syllables of verse . The more emotional the writing - prose or verse the more stresses there will be ; reflective , intellectual exposition tends to have many fewer stresses than ...
... syllables of prose and forty to fifty in the hundred syllables of verse . The more emotional the writing - prose or verse the more stresses there will be ; reflective , intellectual exposition tends to have many fewer stresses than ...
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... syllables . Start re - reading the last sentence . Read as prose it comes out some- thing like this : I should explain that you can read the same words , etc. But as soon as one begins to think of those words as lines of verse , the ...
... syllables . Start re - reading the last sentence . Read as prose it comes out some- thing like this : I should explain that you can read the same words , etc. But as soon as one begins to think of those words as lines of verse , the ...
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... syllables : e.g. , “ Just for a handful of silver he left us . " See dactyl . Feminine ending in an unstressed syllable or syllables . The line quoted under falling meter has a feminine ending . Feminine rhymes are those ( such as ...
... syllables : e.g. , “ Just for a handful of silver he left us . " See dactyl . Feminine ending in an unstressed syllable or syllables . The line quoted under falling meter has a feminine ending . Feminine rhymes are those ( such as ...
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