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... achieved by lines such as : And oft as if her head she bowed , Stooping through a fleecy cloud . on a plat of rising ground , Oft on a I hear the far - off curfew sound , Over some wide - watered shore , Swinging slow with sullen roar ...
... achieved by lines such as : And oft as if her head she bowed , Stooping through a fleecy cloud . on a plat of rising ground , Oft on a I hear the far - off curfew sound , Over some wide - watered shore , Swinging slow with sullen roar ...
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... achieved a new structure . The jerkiness which Shakespeare used to convey Leontes ' mental unrest would have been inappropriate to Milton's purpose : the more colloquial manner of the " Henry IV " passage would have been equally out of ...
... achieved a new structure . The jerkiness which Shakespeare used to convey Leontes ' mental unrest would have been inappropriate to Milton's purpose : the more colloquial manner of the " Henry IV " passage would have been equally out of ...
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... achieved throughout the poem . In every line we are conscious of the steady beat of the rising duple time , but the pattern is flexible . There is counterpointing in verse two , line seven , for example , where instead of the four full ...
... achieved throughout the poem . In every line we are conscious of the steady beat of the rising duple time , but the pattern is flexible . There is counterpointing in verse two , line seven , for example , where instead of the four full ...
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A. E. Housman accent adjectives appeal beauty blank verse blow Bonny Dundee brave CHAPTER clear Coleridge colour couplet Danny Deever dark death delight diction doth duple Echoing Green emotions English example expression eyes final judgement flowers following passages free verse give green hand hath heart heaven iambic pentameters imagery images imagination Johnson judge Keats light look Lyrical melody metre metrical Milton mind modern moon mountains nature neo-Classical never night o'er Paradise Lost pattern Petrarcan pleasure poem poet poet's attitude poet's purpose prosody reader rest restricted poetry rhythmic rime-scheme rimes Romantics round scansion sense sestet Shakespeare Shakespearian silver sing skies song sonnet soul sound Spring sprung rhythm stanzas statement stress style sweet syllables system of scansion T. S. Eliot thee theme things thou thought truth versification whole wind Winter's Tale words Wordsworth write