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... pattern according to which the rimes recur , or he may choose to construct more or less elaborate inter- connections of assonance and alliteration . He has rhythm , too , with which to give his poem a pattern — and , indeed , no poem ...
... pattern according to which the rimes recur , or he may choose to construct more or less elaborate inter- connections of assonance and alliteration . He has rhythm , too , with which to give his poem a pattern — and , indeed , no poem ...
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... patterns . Besides , if a singer forgot something , his pattern would fall short ; so that rime or fixed meter probably helped prevent an epic from diminishing when passed along from one singer to another . It is no coincidence that so ...
... patterns . Besides , if a singer forgot something , his pattern would fall short ; so that rime or fixed meter probably helped prevent an epic from diminishing when passed along from one singer to another . It is no coincidence that so ...
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X. J. Kennedy. Here are some common patterns of English poetry , listed by order of their number of lines . 1. The best - known , repeated one - line pattern for an English poem is blank verse , or unrimed iambic pentameter . ( This pattern ...
X. J. Kennedy. Here are some common patterns of English poetry , listed by order of their number of lines . 1. The best - known , repeated one - line pattern for an English poem is blank verse , or unrimed iambic pentameter . ( This pattern ...
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