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... verse , or at least did not know anything before the times of the schools , where they were taught hymns . One ... verse . There was no sense in the verses , they were made for the sake of rime— “ Ngumbe na - penda chumbe , Malaya mbaya ...
... verse , or at least did not know anything before the times of the schools , where they were taught hymns . One ... verse . There was no sense in the verses , they were made for the sake of rime— “ Ngumbe na - penda chumbe , Malaya mbaya ...
Page 165
... verse form and 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 ...
... verse form and 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 ...
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... verse . As W. H. Auden put it : " The poet who writes ' free verse ' is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island : he must do all his cooking , laundry and darning for himself . In a few exceptional cases , this manly independence ...
... verse . As W. H. Auden put it : " The poet who writes ' free verse ' is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island : he must do all his cooking , laundry and darning for himself . In a few exceptional cases , this manly independence ...
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