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Page 152
... called rising because their movement supposedly rises from slack syllable ( or syllables ) to stress ; trochaic and dactylic meters are called falling . Often called feet , though they contain no unaccented syllables , are the ...
... called rising because their movement supposedly rises from slack syllable ( or syllables ) to stress ; trochaic and dactylic meters are called falling . Often called feet , though they contain no unaccented syllables , are the ...
Page 169
... called terminal refrain . Sometimes an in- ternal refrain appears within a stanza , usually in a position that stays fixed throughout the poem ( as in the ballad " Johnny , I Hardly Knew Ye , " pp . 18–19 , and in Yeats's " Long Legged ...
... called terminal refrain . Sometimes an in- ternal refrain appears within a stanza , usually in a position that stays fixed throughout the poem ( as in the ballad " Johnny , I Hardly Knew Ye , " pp . 18–19 , and in Yeats's " Long Legged ...
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... called at once ; but when they came They answered , as they took their Fees , " There is no Cure for this Disease . Henry will very soon be dead . " His Parents stood about his Bed Lamenting his Untimely Death , When Henry , with his ...
... called at once ; but when they came They answered , as they took their Fees , " There is no Cure for this Disease . Henry will very soon be dead . " His Parents stood about his Bed Lamenting his Untimely Death , When Henry , with his ...
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