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... Italian fields , where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold , who , having ... Italy bounded by the crests of the Alps . In 1655 , ignoring a promise to observe religious liberty , troops of the ...
... Italian fields , where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold , who , having ... Italy bounded by the crests of the Alps . In 1655 , ignoring a promise to observe religious liberty , troops of the ...
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... Italy , is an eight - line stanza of iambic pentameter riming abababcc . Byron chose it for Don Juan . 9. The Spenserian stanza of nine lines , riming ababbcbcc , has eight lines of iambic pentameter and concludes with an Alexandrine ...
... Italy , is an eight - line stanza of iambic pentameter riming abababcc . Byron chose it for Don Juan . 9. The Spenserian stanza of nine lines , riming ababbcbcc , has eight lines of iambic pentameter and concludes with an Alexandrine ...
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... Italian ? Which are variations on either form , or combinations of the two ? In which sonnet form , the English or the Italian , is it more difficult and demanding for an English - speaking poet to write ? Explain . ( You may wish to ...
... Italian ? Which are variations on either form , or combinations of the two ? In which sonnet form , the English or the Italian , is it more difficult and demanding for an English - speaking poet to write ? Explain . ( You may wish to ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats