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... METER 5 To enjoy the rhythms of a poem , no special knowledge of meter is necessary . All you need do is pay attention to stresses and where they fall , and you will perceive the basic pattern , if there is any . However , there is ...
... METER 5 To enjoy the rhythms of a poem , no special knowledge of meter is necessary . All you need do is pay attention to stresses and where they fall , and you will perceive the basic pattern , if there is any . However , there is ...
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... Meters are not ordinarily made up of them ; if one were , it would be like the steady impact of nails being hammered into a board - no pleasure to hear or to dance to . But inserted now and then , they can lend emphasis and variety to a ...
... Meters are not ordinarily made up of them ; if one were , it would be like the steady impact of nails being hammered into a board - no pleasure to hear or to dance to . But inserted now and then , they can lend emphasis and variety to a ...
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... meters ( iambic , anapestic ) and the two falling meters ( trochaic , dactylic ) , English poets have another valuable meter . It is accentual meter , in which the poet does not write in feet ( as in the other meters ) but instead ...
... meters ( iambic , anapestic ) and the two falling meters ( trochaic , dactylic ) , English poets have another valuable meter . It is accentual meter , in which the poet does not write in feet ( as in the other meters ) but instead ...
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