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... PENTAMETER The rhythmical line we will be using for the examples that follow in this section is the commonest line in the poetry of our language , the iambic pentameter . Iambic because for over twenty centuries that has been the name ...
... PENTAMETER The rhythmical line we will be using for the examples that follow in this section is the commonest line in the poetry of our language , the iambic pentameter . Iambic because for over twenty centuries that has been the name ...
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... pentameter is monotonous if we think of it merely as meter . Of course : Monotony is the only virtue of a metronome . But good poets do not write iambic pentameter as a meter ; they use it as a rough gauge for their rhythms . There are ...
... pentameter is monotonous if we think of it merely as meter . Of course : Monotony is the only virtue of a metronome . But good poets do not write iambic pentameter as a meter ; they use it as a rough gauge for their rhythms . There are ...
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... pentameter , Images , 3 archetypal , 100 concrete , 4 , 12 , 13 specific , 11-16 supercharged , 30 withheld , 85-88 223-225 Implied metaphor , 23 , 29 Inspiration , 360-365 Internal rhyme , 195 Inversion , 288-289 Irony , 82-83 Levels ...
... pentameter , Images , 3 archetypal , 100 concrete , 4 , 12 , 13 specific , 11-16 supercharged , 30 withheld , 85-88 223-225 Implied metaphor , 23 , 29 Inspiration , 360-365 Internal rhyme , 195 Inversion , 288-289 Irony , 82-83 Levels ...
Common terms and phrases
accent alliteration Anthology beauty begins better bird blue body breath called close cold color comes dark dead death deep dreams earth effect emotion English example express eyes face fall feel feet fields flowers four Frost girl give green hair hand head hear heard heart holds human images John keep kind language leaves light lines live look meaning metaphor mind moon mouth move nature never night objects once pass play poem poet poetry rain rhyme rhythm Robert rose seems sense SHAKESPEARE shape sing sometimes song sound speech stand stanza sweet syllables symbol tell thee things thou thought trees turn verse vowel walk wind words writing Yeats young