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Page 73
... line has eight feet . For convenience in discussing the length of lines , the following terminology is employed . A line consisting of a single foot is called a monometer ; a line of two feet , a dimeter ; three , trimeter ; four ...
... line has eight feet . For convenience in discussing the length of lines , the following terminology is employed . A line consisting of a single foot is called a monometer ; a line of two feet , a dimeter ; three , trimeter ; four ...
Page 76
... line ; an iambic tetrameter line , for example , is described as 4xa . If this symbol is placed in parentheses , a figure outside indicates the number of lines to the stanza . The stanza of " She Walks in Beauty " can thus be briefly ...
... line ; an iambic tetrameter line , for example , is described as 4xa . If this symbol is placed in parentheses , a figure outside indicates the number of lines to the stanza . The stanza of " She Walks in Beauty " can thus be briefly ...
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... lines of the first stanza differ from those of the first four lines of the second . The melody is strikingly different . When sound actually becomes suggestive of the sense , poetry is said to be onomatopoetic ( or onomatopaic ) ...
... lines of the first stanza differ from those of the first four lines of the second . The melody is strikingly different . When sound actually becomes suggestive of the sense , poetry is said to be onomatopoetic ( or onomatopaic ) ...
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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