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... stanza form . The former is a rhythmic pattern of a verse ( another name for a line ; sometimes popularly but inaccurately used to denote stanza : “ All join in and sing the second verse ! " ) . An example would be any meter : the verse ...
... stanza form . The former is a rhythmic pattern of a verse ( another name for a line ; sometimes popularly but inaccurately used to denote stanza : “ All join in and sing the second verse ! " ) . An example would be any meter : the verse ...
Page 168
... stanzas is the quatrain , whose four lines come sometimes short , sometimes long . A certain quatrain , the ballad stanza , rimed abcb , has four iambic feet in lines 1 and 3 , three in lines 2 and 4 : Clerk Saunders and Maid Margaret ...
... stanzas is the quatrain , whose four lines come sometimes short , sometimes long . A certain quatrain , the ballad stanza , rimed abcb , has four iambic feet in lines 1 and 3 , three in lines 2 and 4 : Clerk Saunders and Maid Margaret ...
Page 170
... stanzas and a tercet , repeats in each stanza the same six end - words in a different order . ( If interested , look up Ezra Pound's " Sestina : Altaforte " in his Personae or Rudyard Kip- ling's " Sestina of the Tramp - Royal . " ) 7 ...
... stanzas and a tercet , repeats in each stanza the same six end - words in a different order . ( If interested , look up Ezra Pound's " Sestina : Altaforte " in his Personae or Rudyard Kip- ling's " Sestina of the Tramp - Royal . " ) 7 ...
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