The Groundwork of CriticismOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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Page 103
... four strong stresses , on the second , fifth , eighth and eleventh syllables respectively , the remaining syllables being either unstressed or lightly stressed . The line is thus made up of an iambus , followed by three anapaests . The ...
... four strong stresses , on the second , fifth , eighth and eleventh syllables respectively , the remaining syllables being either unstressed or lightly stressed . The line is thus made up of an iambus , followed by three anapaests . The ...
Page 104
... four iambuses , the fifth two trochees and a dactyl . The effect of the spondee at the beginning of the third line , following the long stressed syllable in the words slide , heavy , barges , trail'd , is to accentuate the sense of ...
... four iambuses , the fifth two trochees and a dactyl . The effect of the spondee at the beginning of the third line , following the long stressed syllable in the words slide , heavy , barges , trail'd , is to accentuate the sense of ...
Page 106
... four are stressed , two strongly , one fairly strongly . That suggests , by the mass- ing of stresses , the take - off of the weight of water . In line four the onomatopoeic effect of the voiced and unvoiced ' s ' sounds is strongly ...
... four are stressed , two strongly , one fairly strongly . That suggests , by the mass- ing of stresses , the take - off of the weight of water . In line four the onomatopoeic effect of the voiced and unvoiced ' s ' sounds is strongly ...
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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