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... rhythm . All poetry is rhythmical , and a blend of stress and quantity forms the basis of English verse rhythms . Rhythm is a fundamental phenomenon of life , and it is poetry's dependence upon it that helps to make poetry so powerful ...
... rhythm . All poetry is rhythmical , and a blend of stress and quantity forms the basis of English verse rhythms . Rhythm is a fundamental phenomenon of life , and it is poetry's dependence upon it that helps to make poetry so powerful ...
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... rhythm in poetry . Rhythm helps to give heightened emotion , increased excitement , dignity , solem- nity , light - heartedness , speed , languor , or whatever par- ticular effect the poet is aiming at . The sole criterion that the ...
... rhythm in poetry . Rhythm helps to give heightened emotion , increased excitement , dignity , solem- nity , light - heartedness , speed , languor , or whatever par- ticular effect the poet is aiming at . The sole criterion that the ...
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... rhythm from " Felix Randal " . How far from then forethought of , all thy more boisterous years , When thou at the random grim forge , powerful amidst peers , Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal ...
... rhythm from " Felix Randal " . How far from then forethought of , all thy more boisterous years , When thou at the random grim forge , powerful amidst peers , Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal ...
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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