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Page 79
... stanzas in a poem and of lines in its stanza belong to the poem's subject and purpose . Prothalamion , as we shall see , with its ten stanzas of eighteen lines is an example of this . The stanza of The Faerie Queene is of nine lines ...
... stanzas in a poem and of lines in its stanza belong to the poem's subject and purpose . Prothalamion , as we shall see , with its ten stanzas of eighteen lines is an example of this . The stanza of The Faerie Queene is of nine lines ...
Page 140
... stanza usually has three . As in alliterative stressed verse , the number of unstressed syllables can vary freely . In old - style lines of alliterative stressed poetry the main stresses were marked by head - rhyme , three or more to ...
... stanza usually has three . As in alliterative stressed verse , the number of unstressed syllables can vary freely . In old - style lines of alliterative stressed poetry the main stresses were marked by head - rhyme , three or more to ...
Page 176
... stanza by syntactic continuity , which conditions the preposition with which each refrain begins . These links strongly and delicately serve the onward flow of the stanza . The fresh rhyme at line 10 gives a ' turne ' and the refrain is ...
... stanza by syntactic continuity , which conditions the preposition with which each refrain begins . These links strongly and delicately serve the onward flow of the stanza . The fresh rhyme at line 10 gives a ' turne ' and the refrain is ...
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