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... rhyming lines ; the stanza , a regular grouping of lines , usually with a rhyme pattern . The quatrain , or four - line stanza , is one of the most com- mon . Other larger arrangements of lines are blank verse , a series of unrhymed ...
... rhyming lines ; the stanza , a regular grouping of lines , usually with a rhyme pattern . The quatrain , or four - line stanza , is one of the most com- mon . Other larger arrangements of lines are blank verse , a series of unrhymed ...
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... rhyming abcb ( " Sir Patrick Spens " ) . In effect , it is a seven - beat couplet . Some ballad stanzas , however , have four - beat lines throughout . Some rhyme abab . ballade - a French form of three stanzas of eight or ten lines and ...
... rhyming abcb ( " Sir Patrick Spens " ) . In effect , it is a seven - beat couplet . Some ballad stanzas , however , have four - beat lines throughout . Some rhyme abab . ballade - a French form of three stanzas of eight or ten lines and ...
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... rhyme - a correspondence in sound , though not as formally exact as true rhyme ( lane / loan ; lake / lace ) . See the poems of Emily Dickin- son : rhyme . sonnet - a poem of fourteen lines , in iambic pentameter , using one of several set ...
... rhyme - a correspondence in sound , though not as formally exact as true rhyme ( lane / loan ; lake / lace ) . See the poems of Emily Dickin- son : rhyme . sonnet - a poem of fourteen lines , in iambic pentameter , using one of several set ...
Contents
Poems | 36 |
Lord Randal | 43 |
of the Queens Navee 50 LAWRENCE Snake 51 JEFFERS Hurt | 57 |
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