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... song as comparatively unimportant . No mistake could be greater ; for , as Shakespeare has put it , " Orpheus ' lute ... song illus- trates perfectly one of Irving Berlin's eight rules for writing . popular songs : " The title , which ...
... song as comparatively unimportant . No mistake could be greater ; for , as Shakespeare has put it , " Orpheus ' lute ... song illus- trates perfectly one of Irving Berlin's eight rules for writing . popular songs : " The title , which ...
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... song , which is the work of a known poet and a known musician , the folk - song differs in that no one knows who wrote either the melody or the words . The folk - song - although in many instances probably launched by an individual ...
... song , which is the work of a known poet and a known musician , the folk - song differs in that no one knows who wrote either the melody or the words . The folk - song - although in many instances probably launched by an individual ...
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... songs , see Newman I. White : American Negro Folk - Songs and John A. and Alan Lomax : American Ballads and Folk Songs . Many types of song are represented in Carl Sandburg's excellent American Songbag . The following songs and closely ...
... songs , see Newman I. White : American Negro Folk - Songs and John A. and Alan Lomax : American Ballads and Folk Songs . Many types of song are represented in Carl Sandburg's excellent American Songbag . The following songs and closely ...
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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