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... fall just where the ear did not expect them . Then the rhythmic pattern is again synchronized with the metrical , and the other satisfaction of a gratified expectation is yielded to the ear . These verses from Scott's " Bonny Dundee ...
... fall just where the ear did not expect them . Then the rhythmic pattern is again synchronized with the metrical , and the other satisfaction of a gratified expectation is yielded to the ear . These verses from Scott's " Bonny Dundee ...
Page 136
... fall into one or the other of two wide classes , the hedonist , and the didactic . Those who belong to the former school of thought believe that the object of poetry is solely to give pleasure ; those who belong to the latter consider ...
... fall into one or the other of two wide classes , the hedonist , and the didactic . Those who belong to the former school of thought believe that the object of poetry is solely to give pleasure ; those who belong to the latter consider ...
Page 156
... fall a log at last , dry , bald , and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far , in May , Although it fall and die tha night ; It was the plant and flower of light . In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures , life ...
... fall a log at last , dry , bald , and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far , in May , Although it fall and die tha night ; It was the plant and flower of light . In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures , life ...
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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