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Page 122
... stanza would make the structure symmetrical . Where should it be ? Can you see any reason for its absence ? ( Heroic project for literary aspirants : try writing the " missing " stanza so it fits in with the others in all respects . ) B ...
... stanza would make the structure symmetrical . Where should it be ? Can you see any reason for its absence ? ( Heroic project for literary aspirants : try writing the " missing " stanza so it fits in with the others in all respects . ) B ...
Page 360
... stanza forms . Another well - known quatrain is Tennyson's " In Memoriam " stanza : four tetrameters rhyming a b ba in " envelope " fashion - the a - rhymes enclose the stanza . Ring out , wild bells , to the wild sky , The flying cloud ...
... stanza forms . Another well - known quatrain is Tennyson's " In Memoriam " stanza : four tetrameters rhyming a b ba in " envelope " fashion - the a - rhymes enclose the stanza . Ring out , wild bells , to the wild sky , The flying cloud ...
Page 363
... stanza out of simpler elements . The classic nine - line form is the Spenserian stanza , devised for The Faerie Queene . The iambic lines , the first eight of which are pentam- eter and the last of which is an alexandrine , are richly ...
... stanza out of simpler elements . The classic nine - line form is the Spenserian stanza , devised for The Faerie Queene . The iambic lines , the first eight of which are pentam- eter and the last of which is an alexandrine , are richly ...
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Exercises and Diversions | 20 |
Allusion | 37 |
George Herbert Hope | 45 |
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