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... turns to thee , Still to my brother turns , with ceaseless pain , And drags at each remove a lengthening chain . Comrades , leave me here a little , while as yet ' tis early morn : Leave me here , and when you want me , sound upon the ...
... turns to thee , Still to my brother turns , with ceaseless pain , And drags at each remove a lengthening chain . Comrades , leave me here a little , while as yet ' tis early morn : Leave me here , and when you want me , sound upon the ...
Page 114
... Turns Ashes - or it prospers ; and anon , Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two - is ... turn'd As , buried once , Men want dug up again . Think , in this battered Caravanserai Whose Doorways are alternate ...
... Turns Ashes - or it prospers ; and anon , Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two - is ... turn'd As , buried once , Men want dug up again . Think , in this battered Caravanserai Whose Doorways are alternate ...
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... turning , turning , In mazes of heat and sound . But for peace her soul was yearning , And now peace laps her round . Her cabin'd , ample spirit , It flutter'd and fail'd for breath . To - night it doth inherit The vasty hall of death ...
... turning , turning , In mazes of heat and sound . But for peace her soul was yearning , And now peace laps her round . Her cabin'd , ample spirit , It flutter'd and fail'd for breath . To - night it doth inherit The vasty hall of death ...
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Meaning and intention II | 11 |
Versification | 33 |
Diction | 77 |
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accent appeal Basil Bunting beauty blow break Chapter Charles Causley Coleridge Collected Poems colour counterpointing couplet Danny Deever dark dead death detail diction doth duple echoes Eliot emotions English poetry example express eyes Faber Ltd final judgement flowers following passages GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS give grave hath heart heaven iambic pentameters imagery images imagination jolly Keats leaves light lines live look melody metre metrical Milton mind modern moon nature never night o'er Paradise pattern Petrarchan pleasure poet poet's attitude poet's purpose poetic R. S. Thomas reader reading rhyme-scheme rhymes rhythmic round scansion sense sestet Shakespeare Shakespearian silver sing skies snow song sonnet soul sound Spring sprung rhythm stanza statement stress style sweet syllables T. S. Eliot Ted Hughes thee theme things thou thought verse versification W. H. Auden whole Wilfred Owen wind words Wordsworth writing