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X. J. Kennedy. 3. RIME Isak Dinesen's natives , to whom rime was a new phenomenon , recognized at once that rimed language is a special language . So do we ; for , although much English poetry is unrimed , rime is one means to set poetry ...
X. J. Kennedy. 3. RIME Isak Dinesen's natives , to whom rime was a new phenomenon , recognized at once that rimed language is a special language . So do we ; for , although much English poetry is unrimed , rime is one means to set poetry ...
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... rime . Wit may be driven home without rime , but it is rime that rings the doorbell when she arrives . Admittedly , some rimes — like old coins — wear thin from too much use . More difficult to use freshly than before the establishment ...
... rime . Wit may be driven home without rime , but it is rime that rings the doorbell when she arrives . Admittedly , some rimes — like old coins — wear thin from too much use . More difficult to use freshly than before the establishment ...
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... Rime comes in several varieties : To have an exact rime , any sounds following the vowel sound have to be the same in both rimed words or phrases : red and bread , wealthily and stealthily , walk to her and talk to her . If final ...
... Rime comes in several varieties : To have an exact rime , any sounds following the vowel sound have to be the same in both rimed words or phrases : red and bread , wealthily and stealthily , walk to her and talk to her . If final ...
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