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... stanza , " beautifully , " " deeply , " and especially , “ kept " are worked into original and slightly un- idiomatic phrases which suggest in a rather subtle way the naïveté and innocence of the little girl . She is faced with ...
... stanza , " beautifully , " " deeply , " and especially , “ kept " are worked into original and slightly un- idiomatic phrases which suggest in a rather subtle way the naïveté and innocence of the little girl . She is faced with ...
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... stanza and is brought to a climax in the deliberate , wave- like build - up of weight in the last two lines . The effect is re- doubled by the suspenseful pause after " strength , " followed by the final heavy blow at the very end . The ...
... stanza and is brought to a climax in the deliberate , wave- like build - up of weight in the last two lines . The effect is re- doubled by the suspenseful pause after " strength , " followed by the final heavy blow at the very end . The ...
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... stanza form . Each stanza has four lines , the corresponding lines in each stanza have the same number of stresses , the pattern of rhymes is parallel in both stanzas , and the basic rhythm is that most commonly found in English verse ...
... stanza form . Each stanza has four lines , the corresponding lines in each stanza have the same number of stresses , the pattern of rhymes is parallel in both stanzas , and the basic rhythm is that most commonly found in English verse ...
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A. E. Housman beauty bird breath bright Collected Poems Danny Deever dark dead death doth dream earth effect EMILY DICKINSON emotional eternal eyes Ezra Pound fair fear feeling fire flowers ghost green hair HAMLET hand hath hear heard heart heaven HORATIO human imagery images John light lines live look Lord lovers Marianne Moore meaning mind moon nature never night o'er passage POEMS FOR READING poet poet's poetic poetry rain READING AND ANALYSIS rhymes rhythm rose round sense silent sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker spirit spring stanza stars suggest sweet syllable symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee things thou thought tone trees truth verse voice W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden Wallace Stevens waves WILLIAM WILLIAM BLAKE William Carlos Williams WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind words