Introduction to PoetryDonated by Sydney Harris. |
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... accented ; or at least the final four are accented . No such cold thing , we say ; or rather the poem says it , insisting as it does so that we pay special heed to each familiar , natural word . As if - · 71 · GEORGE HERBERT.
... accented ; or at least the final four are accented . No such cold thing , we say ; or rather the poem says it , insisting as it does so that we pay special heed to each familiar , natural word . As if - · 71 · GEORGE HERBERT.
Page 106
... accented , though the first and third are the only ones that can be ; and " dry sound " in line 19 takes as long to pro- nounce as Crane , saying it aloud to himself , requires to under- stand it . But the net result is so uncertain ...
... accented , though the first and third are the only ones that can be ; and " dry sound " in line 19 takes as long to pro- nounce as Crane , saying it aloud to himself , requires to under- stand it . But the net result is so uncertain ...
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... accented , back one another up like three columns of cliff rock -and line 8 communicates the sense of a mutual , never - ending give and take of alternately successful forces . The words thus far have been strong words , full of ...
... accented , back one another up like three columns of cliff rock -and line 8 communicates the sense of a mutual , never - ending give and take of alternately successful forces . The words thus far have been strong words , full of ...
Contents
Had Not Minded Walls Emily Dickinson | 3 |
An Ode Matthew Prior | 4 |
To Lucasta on Going to the Wars Richard Lovelace | 5 |
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A. E. Housman accented alliteration auld lang syne beauty bird blood breast breath bright cloud cold Copyright couplet dark dead dear death doth dream earth Emily Dickinson eyes fair fall feet flowers gone grave green hair hand hath hear heard heart heaven hill iambic iambic pentameter kiss lady leaves light live look Lord lover mind Minnaloushe moon morning never night o'er once Oven Bird poem poet poetry praise quatrain rhyme Roman Road rose round Samian wine shade shadow shore silent silver dawn sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep smiling song sonnet soul sound spring stanza stars sweet syllables tears tell thee thine thing thou thought trees trimeter verse voice W. B. Yeats wall waves weep wild WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind wings wonder words ΙΟ