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... alliteration , which has been defined as a succession of similar sounds . Alliteration occurs in the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of successive words - " round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran ...
... alliteration , which has been defined as a succession of similar sounds . Alliteration occurs in the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of successive words - " round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran ...
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... alliteration than it usually contains today . In Old English verse , each line was held together by alliteration , a basic pattern still evident in the fourteenth century , as in the following description of the world as a “ fair field ...
... alliteration than it usually contains today . In Old English verse , each line was held together by alliteration , a basic pattern still evident in the fourteenth century , as in the following description of the world as a “ fair field ...
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... alliteration , it slows the reader down and focuses attention . A. E. Housman ( 1859-1936 ) * EIGHT O'CLOCK He stood ... alliteration . What patterns of initial alliteration do you find ? What patterns of internal alliteration ? What ...
... alliteration , it slows the reader down and focuses attention . A. E. Housman ( 1859-1936 ) * EIGHT O'CLOCK He stood ... alliteration . What patterns of initial alliteration do you find ? What patterns of internal alliteration ? What ...
Contents
Reading a Poem | 1 |
NARRATIVE POETRY | 8 |
THE PERSON IN THE POEM | 19 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman alliteration aloud ballad beauty bird born called COMPARE connotations Copyright critic dark dead death dream E. E. Cummings Elegy Emily Dickinson English essay eyes Ezra Pound feel figures of speech flower Gerard Manley Hopkins haiku hand hear heart John Keats language light listen live look Lycidas lyric meaning metaphor meter Milton mind move myth never night open form paper pauses phrase play poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS Randall Jarrell reader Reprinted by permission rhythm Richard Wilbur Robert Frost sense Shakespeare sing song sonnet soul sound spider stanza story suggestions sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought translation tree University verse W. H. Auden Whitman William Butler Yeats William Carlos Williams wind words wrote York