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... move without a sound . In poetry , several kinds of recurrent sound are possible , including ( as we saw in the last chapter ) rime , alliteration , and assonance . But most often when we speak of the rhythm of a poem we mean the re ...
... move without a sound . In poetry , several kinds of recurrent sound are possible , including ( as we saw in the last chapter ) rime , alliteration , and assonance . But most often when we speak of the rhythm of a poem we mean the re ...
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... move inseparably with the rest of their poem , the way a tiger's skin and bones move with their tiger . But some- times , in a poem that fails , the poet evidently has had difficulty in persuading his statements to fit a formal pattern ...
... move inseparably with the rest of their poem , the way a tiger's skin and bones move with their tiger . But some- times , in a poem that fails , the poet evidently has had difficulty in persuading his statements to fit a formal pattern ...
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... move , Come live with me and be my love . The shepherds ' swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning . If these delights thy mind may move , Then live with me and be my love . COMPARE : 8 skirt 12 16 20 20 24 24 " The ...
... move , Come live with me and be my love . The shepherds ' swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning . If these delights thy mind may move , Then live with me and be my love . COMPARE : 8 skirt 12 16 20 20 24 24 " The ...
Contents
Entrances | 1 |
Figures of Speech | 2 |
The Person in the Poem | 8 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman Alexander Pope alliteration anthology attitude ballad bird Blake blue called cesura concrete Concrete poetry connotations couplet dance dark dead death denotation diction dream E. E. Cummings Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes feel figures of speech following poem Frankie Gerard Manley Hopkins green hear heart Hurroo iambic imagery irony John Johnny kiss lady language light live look Lycidas lyric meaning metaphor meter Milton's mind myth never night open form paraphrase pattern pauses phrase poem aloud poet poet's poetry Pope prose QUESTIONS reader rhythm Robert Frost simile sing song sonnet sound speak speaker stanza stresses suggest sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme thing Thomas thou thought tone tree usually verse W. H. Auden Whitman William William Butler Yeats William Carlos Williams wind Wordsworth write Yeats