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... lines of the poem ( for- tunately , only about one - eighth of the whole survives ) , and each of the other lines is of exactly the same length , each has precisely the same metrical pattern , with fifteen syllables and a " feminine ...
... lines of the poem ( for- tunately , only about one - eighth of the whole survives ) , and each of the other lines is of exactly the same length , each has precisely the same metrical pattern , with fifteen syllables and a " feminine ...
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... lines . The sonnet was not simply a stanza of fourteen lines with a cer- tain rhyme scheme : the lines were deftly balanced , the links and pauses between them creating a movement which , in most Italian sonnets , was in four parts ...
... lines . The sonnet was not simply a stanza of fourteen lines with a cer- tain rhyme scheme : the lines were deftly balanced , the links and pauses between them creating a movement which , in most Italian sonnets , was in four parts ...
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... lines are handled with effective variety . The sestina , an elaborate verse - form from Petrarch , is a slow moving six - line stanza , with each stanza using the same words to end the lines , but in a different order . It opens : Ye ...
... lines are handled with effective variety . The sestina , an elaborate verse - form from Petrarch , is a slow moving six - line stanza , with each stanza using the same words to end the lines , but in a different order . It opens : Ye ...
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CHAPTER PAGE 1 ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE | 3 |
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THE VICTORIAN POETS 993 | 13 |
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