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... sonnet , sometimes called a Shakespearean sonnet , the rimes cohere in four clusters : a b a b , c dcd , efef , gg . Because a rime scheme tends to shape the poet's statements to it , the English sonnet has three places where the ...
... sonnet , sometimes called a Shakespearean sonnet , the rimes cohere in four clusters : a b a b , c dcd , efef , gg . Because a rime scheme tends to shape the poet's statements to it , the English sonnet has three places where the ...
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... sonnets to adopt an exalted tone , or confines them to an Elizabethan vocabulary , as this sonnet by a contemporary poet makes clear . R. S. Gwynn ( b . 1948 ) SCENES FROM THE PLAYROOM Now Lucy with her family of dolls Disfigures Mother ...
... sonnets to adopt an exalted tone , or confines them to an Elizabethan vocabulary , as this sonnet by a contemporary poet makes clear . R. S. Gwynn ( b . 1948 ) SCENES FROM THE PLAYROOM Now Lucy with her family of dolls Disfigures Mother ...
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... sonnet , 172 epigram , 174 epigraph , 96 euphony , 125 exact rime , 136 explication , 477 eye rime , 137 falling , 155 feminine rime , 136 figures of speech , 88 fixed forms , 171 folk ballads , 115 foot , 154 footnote , 472 form , 164 ...
... sonnet , 172 epigram , 174 epigraph , 96 euphony , 125 exact rime , 136 explication , 477 eye rime , 137 falling , 155 feminine rime , 136 figures of speech , 88 fixed forms , 171 folk ballads , 115 foot , 154 footnote , 472 form , 164 ...
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Reading a Poem | 1 |
NARRATIVE POETRY | 8 |
THE PERSON IN THE POEM | 19 |
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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