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... breath used in their pronunciation , from the long rounded " o " -made with open teeth and rounded lips - to the short closed " a " and " i " -made tightly up against the teeth with a little burst of breath . The consonants , too , take ...
... breath used in their pronunciation , from the long rounded " o " -made with open teeth and rounded lips - to the short closed " a " and " i " -made tightly up against the teeth with a little burst of breath . The consonants , too , take ...
Page 123
... breath , and then the flow continues . Between breaths there is only continuous , vary- ing sound . Only syllables matter in the sound of poetry . It is the mind of the listener that pieces out the separable words . To the mouth and to ...
... breath , and then the flow continues . Between breaths there is only continuous , vary- ing sound . Only syllables matter in the sound of poetry . It is the mind of the listener that pieces out the separable words . To the mouth and to ...
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... breath . " We could rhyme that line only by rewriting it something like : " Enacted without breath , " but that still does not make very good sense . The last rhyme is easier : " Until the Judgment Day " would do quite well , that is ...
... breath . " We could rhyme that line only by rewriting it something like : " Enacted without breath , " but that still does not make very good sense . The last rhyme is easier : " Until the Judgment Day " would do quite well , that is ...
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ancient Mariner beauty bird blood breast breath child cloud cold context Copyright curse dark dead death doth dream E. E. Cummings earth example eyes fear feel flowers hair hands hath hear heard heart heaven human iamb iambic pentameter land language light little birdie live look loud Lycidas man's meaning metaphor mind Moon morning mother move never night o'er object person POEMS FOR COMPARISON poet poet's poetic poetry quatrain rain reader RESPONSE rhyme rhythm Richard Cory RICHARD WILBUR Robert Lowell sails second poem sense sestet ship sigh silent sing slant rhyme sleep smile song sonnet soul sound spirit stanza star strange sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot thee things thou thought trees trochee verbal verse voice W. H. AUDEN walk Wallace Stevens Wedding-Guest WILLIAM BLAKE wind words youth