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... rhythms of poetry also move us may be felt in folk songs of railroad workers and chain gangs whose words were chanted in time to the lifting and dropping of 142 Rhythm Rhythm STRESSES AND PAUSES Rhythm STRESSES AND PAUSES.
... rhythms of poetry also move us may be felt in folk songs of railroad workers and chain gangs whose words were chanted in time to the lifting and dropping of 142 Rhythm Rhythm STRESSES AND PAUSES Rhythm STRESSES AND PAUSES.
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... rhythm of a poem has no meaning . There are no essentially sad rhythms , nor any essentially happy ones . But some rhythms enforce certain meanings better than others do . The bouncing rhythm of Service's line seems fitting for an ...
... rhythm of a poem has no meaning . There are no essentially sad rhythms , nor any essentially happy ones . But some rhythms enforce certain meanings better than others do . The bouncing rhythm of Service's line seems fitting for an ...
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... rhythm becoming monotonous , he knew that the poem was going wrong and that he himself didn't believe what it was saying . As readers , our only test of whether a poem is telling the truth is to see whether its rhythm seems right for it ...
... rhythm becoming monotonous , he knew that the poem was going wrong and that he himself didn't believe what it was saying . As readers , our only test of whether a poem is telling the truth is to see whether its rhythm seems right for it ...
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