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... heart dry of blood So in my veins red life might stream again , And thou be conscience - calmed I hold it towards you . see here it is — 5 The couplet is a two - line stanza , usually rimed . Its lines often tend to be equal in length ...
... heart dry of blood So in my veins red life might stream again , And thou be conscience - calmed I hold it towards you . see here it is — 5 The couplet is a two - line stanza , usually rimed . Its lines often tend to be equal in length ...
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... heart ! heart ! heart ! O the bleeding drops of red , Where on the deck my Captain lies , Fallen cold and dead . O Captain ! my Captain ! rise up and hear the bells ; - Rise up for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills , For ...
... heart ! heart ! heart ! O the bleeding drops of red , Where on the deck my Captain lies , Fallen cold and dead . O Captain ! my Captain ! rise up and hear the bells ; - Rise up for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills , For ...
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... heart To the kymograph and rigged it there , a rag In fitful wind , now made to strain , now stopped By her solutions tonic or malign Alternately in which it would be steeped . What the heart bore , she noted on a chart , For work did ...
... heart To the kymograph and rigged it there , a rag In fitful wind , now made to strain , now stopped By her solutions tonic or malign Alternately in which it would be steeped . What the heart bore , she noted on a chart , For work did ...
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