The Groundwork of Criticism: Judging PoetryOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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Page 97
... rhythm is iambic there is considerable variation of stress . Otherwise intolerable monotony would be the result . In Gray's Elegy , as we have seen , regularity of rhythm is conditioned by the subject and spirit of the poem , and though ...
... rhythm is iambic there is considerable variation of stress . Otherwise intolerable monotony would be the result . In Gray's Elegy , as we have seen , regularity of rhythm is conditioned by the subject and spirit of the poem , and though ...
Page 99
... rhythm . In two of the lines , the sixth and the eighth , the stress is on even - numbered syllables . In these lines , which contain eight syllables , there are four iambic feet . This kind of rhythm is called rising rhythm . Falling ...
... rhythm . In two of the lines , the sixth and the eighth , the stress is on even - numbered syllables . In these lines , which contain eight syllables , there are four iambic feet . This kind of rhythm is called rising rhythm . Falling ...
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... rhythmic system , iambic , trochaic , anapaestic , dactylic , or any combination that we are accustomed to meet . It does , however , suggest , by its system of stresses , the rhythmic movement of a railway train , starting from a ...
... rhythmic system , iambic , trochaic , anapaestic , dactylic , or any combination that we are accustomed to meet . It does , however , suggest , by its system of stresses , the rhythmic movement of a railway train , starting from a ...
Contents
WHAT IS POETRY? EXERCISES | 7 |
KINDS OF POETRY | 19 |
INFLUENCES IV WORDS V IMAGERY EXERCISES VI SWING EXERCISES 7 19 | 37 |
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ALEXANDER POPE alley anapaests bear beauty breath Cheddar Pinks conceit dactyl daffodils dance dark darling dead death doth dreams dying earth echoes Elegy emotive example expression eyes Faerie Queene fancy feel feet figurative language flowers following passage following poem foot Hamlet hath hear heart heaven human iambic idea imagery images inverted stress LAURENCE BINYON light lines lives LORD TENNYSON Lycidas lyric maid MATTHEW ARNOLD metaphor metre mind moon narrative poems nature ne'er o'er pale phrase plays poet poet's poetry questions printed Read carefully rhyme rhythm ROBERT ROBERT BURNS round Sally satiric scene sense Shakespeare's sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speech spirit spondee stanza stars STEPHEN SPENDER stressed syllable strong stress suggests sweet T. S. Eliot thee theme thine things thou thought trochees unstressed verse W. B. Yeats Wilfred Owen WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind words