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... stanza : " All join in and sing the second verse ! " In speaking of a stanza , whether sung or read , it is customary to indicate by a convenient algebra its rime scheme , the order in which rimed words recur . For instance , the rime ...
... stanza : " All join in and sing the second verse ! " In speaking of a stanza , whether sung or read , it is customary to indicate by a convenient algebra its rime scheme , the order in which rimed words recur . For instance , the rime ...
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... stanza much more complicated than the ballad stanza.3 How would you describe its stanza pattern and , if you know music , how has the tune apparently helped to shape it ? Anonymous ( traditional English folk ballad ) STILL GROWING ιΈ£ ...
... stanza much more complicated than the ballad stanza.3 How would you describe its stanza pattern and , if you know music , how has the tune apparently helped to shape it ? Anonymous ( traditional English folk ballad ) STILL GROWING ιΈ£ ...
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... stanzas is the quatrain , used for more rimed poems than any other form . It comes in many line lengths , and sometimes contains lines of varying length , as in the ballad stanza ( see Chapter Seven ) . Longer and more complicated stanzas ...
... stanzas is the quatrain , used for more rimed poems than any other form . It comes in many line lengths , and sometimes contains lines of varying length , as in the ballad stanza ( see Chapter Seven ) . Longer and more complicated stanzas ...
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Entrances | 1 |
Figures of Speech | 2 |
The Person in the Poem | 8 |
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Common terms and phrases
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