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Page 17
... feet suggesting metrical feet ) , and homespun cloth suggests something both homely and serviceable . By the end of the poem , Mrs. Bradstreet seems to regard her book - child with tender sympathy , amusement , and a certain indulgent ...
... feet suggesting metrical feet ) , and homespun cloth suggests something both homely and serviceable . By the end of the poem , Mrs. Bradstreet seems to regard her book - child with tender sympathy , amusement , and a certain indulgent ...
Page 152
... feet . ( The scan- sion marks are by Coleridge , who apparently meant to illustrate only the metrical feet he lists , not to scan the entire poem . ) SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ( 1772-1834 ) Metrical Feet Trochee trips from long to short ...
... feet . ( The scan- sion marks are by Coleridge , who apparently meant to illustrate only the metrical feet he lists , not to scan the entire poem . ) SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ( 1772-1834 ) Metrical Feet Trochee trips from long to short ...
Page 153
... feet . 5. Pentameter : a line of five feet . 6. Hexameter : a line of six feet . 7. Heptameter : a line of seven feet . 8. Octameter : a line of eight feet . Lines longer than eight feet are possible , but to a listener they tend to ...
... feet . 5. Pentameter : a line of five feet . 6. Hexameter : a line of six feet . 7. Heptameter : a line of seven feet . 8. Octameter : a line of eight feet . Lines longer than eight feet are possible , but to a listener they tend 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