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... tell the meter of a given line is to name which pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables predominates , and also to tell the length of the line . Here , for instance , are four lines of Thomas Gray's " Elegy in a Country Church ...
... tell the meter of a given line is to name which pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables predominates , and also to tell the length of the line . Here , for instance , are four lines of Thomas Gray's " Elegy in a Country Church ...
Page 191
... tell you , hopeless grief is passionless " ( p . 185 ) . Or it might move from details to more general statement , as does Keats's “ Ode on a Grecian Urn " ( p . 321 ) , presenting details of the urn's pattern and arriving at the ...
... tell you , hopeless grief is passionless " ( p . 185 ) . Or it might move from details to more general statement , as does Keats's “ Ode on a Grecian Urn " ( p . 321 ) , presenting details of the urn's pattern and arriving at the ...
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... tell why . Such , perhaps , are Emily Dickinson's forked lightning bolt , dropped from celestial tables , and her buzzing fly that arrives together with death . Indefinite power may be present also in an archetype ( Greek : " first ...
... tell why . Such , perhaps , are Emily Dickinson's forked lightning bolt , dropped from celestial tables , and her buzzing fly that arrives together with death . Indefinite power may be present also in an archetype ( Greek : " first ...
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