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... verse . There was no sense in the verses , they were made for the sake of rime " Ngumbe na - penda chumbe , Malaya mbaya . Wakamba na - kula mamba . " The oxen like salt are bad - The Wakamba eat snakes . It caught the interest of the ...
... verse . There was no sense in the verses , they were made for the sake of rime " Ngumbe na - penda chumbe , Malaya mbaya . Wakamba na - kula mamba . " The oxen like salt are bad - The Wakamba eat snakes . It caught the interest of the ...
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... verse ( from the French vers libre ) , suggesting a kind of verse liberated from the shackles of rime and meter . " Writing free verse , " said Robert Frost , who wasn't interested in it , " is like playing tennis with the net down ...
... verse ( from the French vers libre ) , suggesting a kind of verse liberated from the shackles of rime and meter . " Writing free verse , " said Robert Frost , who wasn't interested in it , " is like playing tennis with the net down ...
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... verse , 165 brainstorm , 465 broadside ballads , 118 cacophony , 125 carpe diem , 4 cesura , 148 Child ballads , 116 clerihew , 178 closed couplet , 166 closed form , 164 collection , 495 common meter , 118 comparison , 485 conceit ...
... verse , 165 brainstorm , 465 broadside ballads , 118 cacophony , 125 carpe diem , 4 cesura , 148 Child ballads , 116 clerihew , 178 closed couplet , 166 closed form , 164 collection , 495 common meter , 118 comparison , 485 conceit ...
Contents
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