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... Verse is more ancient than prose . Not only does the infant , as his crying and gurgling cohere into babbling and then into speech , seek order of language in rhythm and rhyme ( " Ba - ba , ma - ma , pa - pa " ) , but the most primitive ...
... Verse is more ancient than prose . Not only does the infant , as his crying and gurgling cohere into babbling and then into speech , seek order of language in rhythm and rhyme ( " Ba - ba , ma - ma , pa - pa " ) , but the most primitive ...
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... verse ; in scanning his late plays we often have difficulty in determining what metrical organization he intended . Dramatists who followed him in the Jacobean period allowed their pentameter to deteriorate even further . Here is some ...
... verse ; in scanning his late plays we often have difficulty in determining what metrical organization he intended . Dramatists who followed him in the Jacobean period allowed their pentameter to deteriorate even further . Here is some ...
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... verse ( or in quantitative verse ) . A foot never consists of more than four syllables . Those common in English verse are : monosyllabic foot ( / ) ; iamb ( ~~ ) ; trochee ( / ~ ) ; pyrrhic ( ~~ ) ; spondee ( // ) ; and anapest ...
... verse ( or in quantitative verse ) . A foot never consists of more than four syllables . Those common in English verse are : monosyllabic foot ( / ) ; iamb ( ~~ ) ; trochee ( / ~ ) ; pyrrhic ( ~~ ) ; spondee ( // ) ; and anapest ...
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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