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... Thou ill - formed offspring of my feeble brain , Who after birth did'st by my side remain , Till snatched from ... thou run'st more hobbling than is meet ; In better dress to trim thee was my mind , But nought save homespun cloth in the ...
... Thou ill - formed offspring of my feeble brain , Who after birth did'st by my side remain , Till snatched from ... thou run'st more hobbling than is meet ; In better dress to trim thee was my mind , But nought save homespun cloth in the ...
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... thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves , or none , or few , do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold , Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang . In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset ...
... thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves , or none , or few , do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold , Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang . In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset ...
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... thou canst : another race , When thou and thine , like me , are sped , May rescue thee from earth's embrace , And rhyme and revel with the dead . Why not ? since through life's little day Our heads such sad effects produce ; Redeemed ...
... thou canst : another race , When thou and thine , like me , are sped , May rescue thee from earth's embrace , And rhyme and revel with the dead . Why not ? since through life's little day Our heads such sad effects produce ; Redeemed ...
Contents
Entrances | 1 |
Figures of Speech | 2 |
The Person in the Poem | 8 |
Copyright | |
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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