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Page 57
... suggestion of a jingle , yet the rimes are just sufficiently pronounced to satisfy the ear . The sestet of a Petrarcan sonnet should never end with a couplet - this is the unique mark of a Shake- spearian sonnet , and would be ...
... suggestion of a jingle , yet the rimes are just sufficiently pronounced to satisfy the ear . The sestet of a Petrarcan sonnet should never end with a couplet - this is the unique mark of a Shake- spearian sonnet , and would be ...
Page 85
... suggestion of labour , of striving for effect , on the part of the poet is fatal , such poetry " smells of the lamp Remember in this connexion what Keats said of poetry in general : " If Poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves . to ...
... suggestion of labour , of striving for effect , on the part of the poet is fatal , such poetry " smells of the lamp Remember in this connexion what Keats said of poetry in general : " If Poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves . to ...
Page 104
... suggestion . Take these lines by Arnold . As some rich woman , on a winter's morn , Eyes through her silken curtains the poor drudge Who with numb blacken'd fingers makes her fire- At cock - crow , on a starlit winter's morn , When the ...
... suggestion . Take these lines by Arnold . As some rich woman , on a winter's morn , Eyes through her silken curtains the poor drudge Who with numb blacken'd fingers makes her fire- At cock - crow , on a starlit winter's morn , When the ...
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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