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... verse . Verse is any singsong with rhythm and rhyme , as in Thirty days hath September , April , June , and November . . . The word " verse " refers only to the shape an expression takes , not to its content or quality . Poetry may be in ...
... verse . Verse is any singsong with rhythm and rhyme , as in Thirty days hath September , April , June , and November . . . The word " verse " refers only to the shape an expression takes , not to its content or quality . Poetry may be in ...
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... verse— I wish it never led to something worse . . . . Rhyme is made up of a sameness plus a difference , as in poet / know it show it . The sameness , the fixed element , is an accented vowel sound ( 1 ) . Sounds coming after the ...
... verse— I wish it never led to something worse . . . . Rhyme is made up of a sameness plus a difference , as in poet / know it show it . The sameness , the fixed element , is an accented vowel sound ( 1 ) . Sounds coming after the ...
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... verse , no verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job . But there is certainly a sense in which rhythms can be said to be free - independent , that is , of any set line length and of any one kind of meter . In free rhythms the ...
... verse , no verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job . But there is certainly a sense in which rhythms can be said to be free - independent , that is , of any set line length and of any one kind of meter . In free rhythms the ...
Common terms and phrases
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