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... syllables , too , can direct our attention to what the poet means . In a line containing few stresses and a great many unstressed syllables , he can achieve an effect not of power and force but of hes- itation and uncertainty . Yeats ...
... syllables , too , can direct our attention to what the poet means . In a line containing few stresses and a great many unstressed syllables , he can achieve an effect not of power and force but of hes- itation and uncertainty . Yeats ...
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... syllables alternately un- stressed and stressed . ) Poets rarely speak in it for very long either , and seldom with exactitude . If you read aloud Max Beerbohm's lines , you will hear an iambic rhythm but not an absolutely invariable ...
... syllables alternately un- stressed and stressed . ) Poets rarely speak in it for very long either , and seldom with exactitude . If you read aloud Max Beerbohm's lines , you will hear an iambic rhythm but not an absolutely invariable ...
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... syllable ( or syllables ) to stress ; tro- chaic and dactylic meters are called falling . In the twentieth century , the bouncing meters — anapestic and dactylic - have been used more often for comic verse than for serious poetry ...
... syllable ( or syllables ) to stress ; tro- chaic and dactylic meters are called falling . In the twentieth century , the bouncing meters — anapestic and dactylic - have been used more often for comic verse than for serious poetry ...
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Entrances | 1 |
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