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... rest is inserted for a dactyl , an iambus with a rest for an anapest . These forms occur in our great poetry so seldom that it is better to study them as particular features of the poems which exemplify them rather than as separate ...
... rest is inserted for a dactyl , an iambus with a rest for an anapest . These forms occur in our great poetry so seldom that it is better to study them as particular features of the poems which exemplify them rather than as separate ...
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... rest is silence , " mean nothing by themselves ; they might be spoken humorously as a boring orator at last quits his speech , as a school - boy forgets his memorized declamation , or as one gains relief from a noisy party and returns ...
... rest is silence , " mean nothing by themselves ; they might be spoken humorously as a boring orator at last quits his speech , as a school - boy forgets his memorized declamation , or as one gains relief from a noisy party and returns ...
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... rest With choirs of birds , and winds not yet at rest ) IV I am an insect caught in that web strange That , treacherously spread around the world That , cast athwart the world's land , sea , and air ) ( Renders all struggle useless in ...
... rest With choirs of birds , and winds not yet at rest ) IV I am an insect caught in that web strange That , treacherously spread around the world That , cast athwart the world's land , sea , and air ) ( Renders all struggle useless in ...
Contents
ENRICHMENT | 16 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 33 |
THE MECHANICS OF POETRY | 49 |
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