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... lines , and four each in the last two lines . Yeats ' ' Death ' , again , has nor- mally three stresses in each line , and the whole poem with its massive stoicism doesn't cease to be poetic because it is also made up of five ...
... lines , and four each in the last two lines . Yeats ' ' Death ' , again , has nor- mally three stresses in each line , and the whole poem with its massive stoicism doesn't cease to be poetic because it is also made up of five ...
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... lines of verse could also be built up into smaller significant bundles : thus the heroic couplet in two lines , the terza rima ( made famous by Dante ) in three lines , quatrains in four lines , five - line stanzas ( cinquains ) like ...
... lines of verse could also be built up into smaller significant bundles : thus the heroic couplet in two lines , the terza rima ( made famous by Dante ) in three lines , quatrains in four lines , five - line stanzas ( cinquains ) like ...
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... lines of iambic verse ) ; the balance between the octave and the sestet ; and the rhyme - scheme . But these ... lines longer as in Hopkins ' ' The Windhover ' ; ( ii ) while retaining the proportion between octave and sestet as 4 : 3 ...
... lines of iambic verse ) ; the balance between the octave and the sestet ; and the rhyme - scheme . But these ... lines longer as in Hopkins ' ' The Windhover ' ; ( ii ) while retaining the proportion between octave and sestet as 4 : 3 ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF LITERATURE AND THe | 3 |
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE | 21 |
BACKGROUNDS CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN | 42 |
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