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... thought wise who could not understand His glories : with a puling infant's force They swayed about upon a rocking horse , And thought it Pegasus . Ah dismal souled ! The winds of heaven blew : the ocean rolled Its IAMBIC PENTAMETER 201 ...
... thought wise who could not understand His glories : with a puling infant's force They swayed about upon a rocking horse , And thought it Pegasus . Ah dismal souled ! The winds of heaven blew : the ocean rolled Its IAMBIC PENTAMETER 201 ...
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... thought I had not hoped to reach . " Men work together , " I told him from the heart , " Whether they work together ... thought , a contrast , or a summary ; and the change in the rime scheme emphasizes the change in thought . Both ...
... thought I had not hoped to reach . " Men work together , " I told him from the heart , " Whether they work together ... thought , a contrast , or a summary ; and the change in the rime scheme emphasizes the change in thought . Both ...
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... thought , With many recognitions dim and faint , And somewhat of a sad perplexity , The picture of the mind revives again : While here I stand , not only with the sense Of present pleasure , but with pleasing thoughts That in this ...
... thought , With many recognitions dim and faint , And somewhat of a sad perplexity , The picture of the mind revives again : While here I stand , not only with the sense Of present pleasure , but with pleasing thoughts That in this ...
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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