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... or similar sound , not only a vowel - sound . In this sense , assonance is a kind of rime ; so is alliteration ( called initial rime ) . Here rimes combine things unexpectedly . Robert Herrick , too Rime 133 RIME RIME ANONYMOUS, Julius ...
... or similar sound , not only a vowel - sound . In this sense , assonance is a kind of rime ; so is alliteration ( called initial rime ) . Here rimes combine things unexpectedly . Robert Herrick , too Rime 133 RIME RIME ANONYMOUS, Julius ...
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... rime to indicate a startling contrast : Then while time serves , and we are but decaying , Come , my Corinna , come , let's go a - Maying . Though good rimes seem fresh , not all will startle , and probably few will call to mind things ...
... rime to indicate a startling contrast : Then while time serves , and we are but decaying , Come , my Corinna , come , let's go a - Maying . Though good rimes seem fresh , not all will startle , and probably few will call to mind things ...
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... rime can help a poet to group his ideas , emphasize particular words , and weave a poem together . It can start reverberations between words and can point to connections of meaning . To have an exact rime , sounds following the vowel ...
... rime can help a poet to group his ideas , emphasize particular words , and weave a poem together . It can start reverberations between words and can point to connections of meaning . To have an exact rime , sounds following the vowel ...
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Figures of Speech | 2 |
The Person in the Poem | 8 |
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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