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... epigram . In poetry , however , an epigram is a form : " A short poem ending in a witty or ingenious turn of thought , to which the rest of the composition is intended to lead up " ( according to the Oxford English Dictionary ) . Often ...
... epigram . In poetry , however , an epigram is a form : " A short poem ending in a witty or ingenious turn of thought , to which the rest of the composition is intended to lead up " ( according to the Oxford English Dictionary ) . Often ...
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... epigram seem fixed . Its pattern tends usually to be brief and rimed ; its tone , playfully merciless . MARTIAL ... epigrams , taking 187.
... epigram seem fixed . Its pattern tends usually to be brief and rimed ; its tone , playfully merciless . MARTIAL ... epigrams , taking 187.
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... epigrams ? Does this diminish their effect of " seriousness " ? In English the only other fixed form to rival the sonnet and the epigram in favor is the limerick : a pattern of five anapestic lines usually riming aabba , the third and ...
... epigrams ? Does this diminish their effect of " seriousness " ? In English the only other fixed form to rival the sonnet and the epigram in favor is the limerick : a pattern of five anapestic lines usually riming aabba , the third and ...
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