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... poetic convention ' is culturally established can poets develop new poetry which plays down some of these differences , or prose , which keeps some of the literary conven- tions of poetry ( plot , characterization , and so on ) , but ...
... poetic convention ' is culturally established can poets develop new poetry which plays down some of these differences , or prose , which keeps some of the literary conven- tions of poetry ( plot , characterization , and so on ) , but ...
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... poetic form . Source of some of the exam- ples quoted in this book . Fussell , Paul , Poetic Meter and Poetic Form ( New York , 1965 ; 1969 ) . Lively , thought - provoking , but occasionally flawed ( see Appendix C ) . Gimson , A. C. ...
... poetic form . Source of some of the exam- ples quoted in this book . Fussell , Paul , Poetic Meter and Poetic Form ( New York , 1965 ; 1969 ) . Lively , thought - provoking , but occasionally flawed ( see Appendix C ) . Gimson , A. C. ...
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... poets in Yugoslavia which has important implications for what we know of the origins and development of similar forms in Old English . Lotman , Yury , Analysis of the Poetic Text ( Ann Arbor , 1976 ) . One of the most illuminating books ...
... poets in Yugoslavia which has important implications for what we know of the origins and development of similar forms in Old English . Lotman , Yury , Analysis of the Poetic Text ( Ann Arbor , 1976 ) . One of the most illuminating books ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Phonemic Patterns | 38 |
Choosing and Using Words | 58 |
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A. E. Housman alliteration audience ballad bed soon Beowulf blackbird bring caesura carol century Chaucer concrete poetry consonant sounds conventional conveyed couplet cultural d'ye leave duplet e. e. cummings effect English poetry enjambed example fain wad lie five-stress lines fixed form Goddamm hath hear heart isochronous kind language of poetry Latin linguistic listener literary look Lord Randal lyric mak my bed meaning measure metaphor metre metrical Middle English night Old English opening oral perceived performance phonemic patterns phrase poem poet's poetic poets printed pronounced pronunciation quatrain reader regular reprinted by permission rhyme rhyme-scheme rhythm rime royale Robert semantic silent stress sing singlet song speech speech-sounds stanza form stressed syllable symbols T. S. Eliot take this shadow thee thing thou tree triplet unvoiced consonants usually verbs verse voiced vowel W. B. Yeats weak syllables words