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... silent water . b . Your low voice tells how bells of singing gold Would sound at twilight over silent water . Milton Elizabeth Coatsworth Edwin Arlington Robinson 5. a . A thousand streamlets flowing through the lawn , The moan of doves ...
... silent water . b . Your low voice tells how bells of singing gold Would sound at twilight over silent water . Milton Elizabeth Coatsworth Edwin Arlington Robinson 5. a . A thousand streamlets flowing through the lawn , The moan of doves ...
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... silence ( for I know silence ) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me . KUBLA KHAN In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure - dome decree : Where Alph , the sacred river , ran Through ...
... silence ( for I know silence ) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me . KUBLA KHAN In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure - dome decree : Where Alph , the sacred river , ran Through ...
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... silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate , can e'er return . O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Omomental edging braidal or embroidered 40 Of marble men and maidens overwrought , With forest branches and the ...
... silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate , can e'er return . O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Omomental edging braidal or embroidered 40 Of marble men and maidens overwrought , With forest branches and the ...
Contents
What Is Poetry? | 3 |
From the Book of Job Hast thou given the horse strength | 16 |
Mari Evans | 27 |
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A. E. Housman accented syllable alliteration allusion anapestic beauty birds College connotations consonant sounds dark dead death e. e. cummings effect Emily Dickinson emotional example experience Explain eyes feel feet figurative term figure of speech flower foot green hand hear heard heart heaven human iambic iambic pentameter iambs irony killed kind language light literal live look lovers meaning metaphor metonymy metrical foot metrical pattern mither moon mouse never night onomatopoetic paradox pause poem poet poet's poetic poetry prose QUESTIONS reader repetition rhythm rime scheme Robert Frost rose scansion sense sestet Shakespeare silence sing sleep song sonnet soul speaker spondee stanza star suggest sweet symbol tell thee things thou thought tone trees trochee Ulysses unaccented syllables verse Vocabulary voice vowel W. H. Auden wind woods words