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... written during a time of strong religious feeling , so most patriotic songs are written in war - time ; for it is war , not peace , which calls out the passionate love of coun- try . The great national song cannot be made to order ; it ...
... written during a time of strong religious feeling , so most patriotic songs are written in war - time ; for it is war , not peace , which calls out the passionate love of coun- try . The great national song cannot be made to order ; it ...
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... written in any meter or line length . Tennyson's " To Virgil " is in couplet form . In this and other chapters , note the poems which are written in couplets . The name tercet is often but not invariably applied to a three - line stanza ...
... written in any meter or line length . Tennyson's " To Virgil " is in couplet form . In this and other chapters , note the poems which are written in couplets . The name tercet is often but not invariably applied to a three - line stanza ...
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... written in pentameters ( ten syllables ) just as the ballade with eight - line stanzas should always be written in tetrameters ( eight syllables ) , but these rules . are not strictly adhered to . The double ballade consists of six ...
... written in pentameters ( ten syllables ) just as the ballade with eight - line stanzas should always be written in tetrameters ( eight syllables ) , but these rules . are not strictly adhered to . The double ballade consists of six ...
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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