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Page 66
... iambic meter , a poem with no substituted feet is not the rule but the rare exception . In the first foot of an iambic line the trochee is a legitimate and frequent substitution which affords variety and emphasis . " She Walks in Beauty ...
... iambic meter , a poem with no substituted feet is not the rule but the rare exception . In the first foot of an iambic line the trochee is a legitimate and frequent substitution which affords variety and emphasis . " She Walks in Beauty ...
Page 175
... iambic pentameter line ( 5xa ) , which in English poetry is used oftener than any other . Two lines from Wordsworth's famous ode will illustrate the iambic pen- tameter line . The trochee in the first foot of the second line is a common ...
... iambic pentameter line ( 5xa ) , which in English poetry is used oftener than any other . Two lines from Wordsworth's famous ode will illustrate the iambic pen- tameter line . The trochee in the first foot of the second line is a common ...
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... iambic , it is not necessary to make any particular suggestions for fur- ther reading of poems in the iambic meter . Note that all the poems con- tained in Chapters V and VII are iambic . Milton's " L'Allegro " and " Il Penseroso ...
... iambic , it is not necessary to make any particular suggestions for fur- ther reading of poems in the iambic meter . Note that all the poems con- tained in Chapters V and VII are iambic . Milton's " L'Allegro " and " Il Penseroso ...
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accented syllables Alfred Edward Housman alliteration anapestic ballad beauty birds blank verse Burns Cæsar's called Camelot century chapter couplet dactylic Danny Deever dark dead death dreams earth Edwin Arlington Robinson elegy English poetry eyes feet flowers following poem free verse glory gone gray hath hear heart heaven hills Hymn iambic pentameter John Keats Lady of Shalott land light lines living look Lord lyric melody meter metrical Milton moon never night o'er poet poetic prose quatrain quote reader rhythm rime Ring Robert Robert Frost romance rose Shakespeare silent sing sleep song sonnet soul sound stanza stars sung sweet Tennyson thee theme thine things thou thought trees trochaic wandering wave weary White Man's burden Whitman wild William William Butler Yeats wind words Wordsworth written wrote