An Introduction to PoetryMacmillan, 1936 - 617 pages |
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... O'er the land of the free , and the home of the brave ? On that shore dimly seen thro ' the mists of the deep , Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes , What is that which the breeze , o'er the towering steep , As it ...
... O'er the land of the free , and the home of the brave ? On that shore dimly seen thro ' the mists of the deep , Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes , What is that which the breeze , o'er the towering steep , As it ...
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... o'er aught that was bright in my story , I knew it was love , and I felt it was glory . George Noel Gordon , Lord Byron ( 1788-1824 ) The anapests in " Prospice " assist in conveying the THE TRIPLE METERS 145 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor ...
... o'er aught that was bright in my story , I knew it was love , and I felt it was glory . George Noel Gordon , Lord Byron ( 1788-1824 ) The anapests in " Prospice " assist in conveying the THE TRIPLE METERS 145 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor ...
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... o'er . Some ladies now make pretty songs . Somebody called Walt Whitman ... Something there is that doesn't love a wall . Songstress , in all times ended and begun . 515 375 401 193 377 Sound , sound the clarion , fill the fife !. 474 ...
... o'er . Some ladies now make pretty songs . Somebody called Walt Whitman ... Something there is that doesn't love a wall . Songstress , in all times ended and begun . 515 375 401 193 377 Sound , sound the clarion , fill the fife !. 474 ...
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accented syllables Alfred Edward Housman alliteration anapestic ballad beauty birds blank verse Burns Cæsar's called Camelot century chapter couplet dactylic Danny Deever dark dead death dreams earth Edwin Arlington Robinson elegy English poetry eyes feet flowers following poem free verse glory gone gray hath hear heart heaven hills Hymn iambic pentameter John Keats Lady of Shalott land light lines living look Lord lyric melody meter metrical Milton moon never night o'er poet poetic prose quatrain quote reader rhythm rime Ring Robert Robert Frost romance rose Shakespeare silent sing sleep song sonnet soul sound stanza stars sung sweet Tennyson thee theme thine things thou thought trees trochaic wandering wave weary White Man's burden Whitman wild William William Butler Yeats wind words Wordsworth written wrote