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Page 383
... prose . Rhythm , every one admits , is essential ; but literary prose has also a rhythm of its own which it is dif- ficult , if not impossible , to distinguish from that of poetry . A contemporary critic , J. E. Spingarn , actually goes ...
... prose . Rhythm , every one admits , is essential ; but literary prose has also a rhythm of its own which it is dif- ficult , if not impossible , to distinguish from that of poetry . A contemporary critic , J. E. Spingarn , actually goes ...
Page 407
... prose " spaced prose , " he calls it . In other words , free verse is , in the main , as we suggested earlier in the chapter , only a new name for a very old thing , poetic or impassioned prose . The bulk of current free verse is , like ...
... prose " spaced prose , " he calls it . In other words , free verse is , in the main , as we suggested earlier in the chapter , only a new name for a very old thing , poetic or impassioned prose . The bulk of current free verse is , like ...
Page 560
... prose . all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand " is as poetic as anything else in Macbeth . The prose plays of Maurice Maeterlinck , John Millington Synge , and Lord Dunsany are highly poetic . There is a poetry of ...
... prose . all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand " is as poetic as anything else in Macbeth . The prose plays of Maurice Maeterlinck , John Millington Synge , and Lord Dunsany are highly poetic . There is a poetry of ...
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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