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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 111
... stanzas of rhyme royal . Colin Clout , poet and shepherd , is singing his ' complaint of love so lovely ' . The style is ... stanza presents the same ' rhyme words ' in order , but with recapitulation of one . A coda gathers all of them ...
... stanzas of rhyme royal . Colin Clout , poet and shepherd , is singing his ' complaint of love so lovely ' . The style is ... stanza presents the same ' rhyme words ' in order , but with recapitulation of one . A coda gathers all of them ...
Page 175
... stanza ( 3 ) . From Jove's loving in swan form of Leda sprang Castor and Pollux , who as stars are named for the ... stanza is based on the Elizabethan dance - song stanza of three traces : A lines 1- -5 , A ' 6-10 , B 11-12 , B ' 13-14 ...
... stanza ( 3 ) . From Jove's loving in swan form of Leda sprang Castor and Pollux , who as stars are named for the ... stanza is based on the Elizabethan dance - song stanza of three traces : A lines 1- -5 , A ' 6-10 , B 11-12 , B ' 13-14 ...
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antiquity Arthur aspect beast beauty belongs Belphoebe Book Bowre bride Brydale day canto Catholic celebrated Christian Church classical classical antiquity Colin Clout cosmic court Cynthia death decorum delight Despair doth Earl earth eclogue Edmund Spenser Elizabeth Elizabethan end my Song England English epic Epithalamion Essex fable Faerie Queene flowers God's grace hath haue heavenly heroic poem honour imitation Ireland Irish justice Kilcolman knight lady land language learned legend Leicester Lettice Knollys London Lord Grey married meaning Merchant Taylors metaphor mind monarch moon Munster muse nature Neoplatonism noble nymphs pastoral pattern Petrarch Philip Sidney planet poem's poet poet's poetic present prince Prothalamion Raleigh reader realm Redcrosse region Renaissance rhyme rhythm romance royal sense sequence Shepheardes Calender shepherd shows sonnet Spenser's poetry stanza swans Temperaunce thou translated tribute Tudor Venus verse vertue Virgin virtue whole woodcut words