Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry

A. E. Housman accented syllables alliteration allusion anapestic assonance beauty birds Collected Poems connotations Copyright dead death Discuss Donne dream effect Emily Dickinson emotional example experience Explain explication eyes Faber feel feet figure of speech foot iambic idea imagery images irony John Donne kind Lamb language literal literature look lullaby Maxine Kumin meaning metaphor meter metonymy metrical foot musical never night onomatopoetic paper paradox parenthetical documentation pause Philip Larkin phrase Plath poem's poet poet's poetic poetry prose punctuation purpose QUESTIONS reader repetition Reprinted by permission rhyme scheme rhythm rhythmic Robert Frost sense sentence Shakespeare sing sleep Song sonnet speaker stanza stress suggest sweet Sylvia Plath symbol Ted Hughes tell Terence thee things thou tion tone trochaic trochee unaccented syllables villanelle Vocabulary vowel W. H. Auden woman words writing