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... tones of lower pitch have no monopoly upon beauty of sound . Indeed , one is unsafe in laying down any general principles for vowel sounds . And yet we recognize in passage after passage the effectiveness of tone ; in the seven excerpts ...
... tones of lower pitch have no monopoly upon beauty of sound . Indeed , one is unsafe in laying down any general principles for vowel sounds . And yet we recognize in passage after passage the effectiveness of tone ; in the seven excerpts ...
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... tone from which the sound drops abruptly ; twice it climbs back quickly ; then through a whole line it modulates but gradually upward , until at last the three clear high notes emerge , followed , as in the beginning , by a drop ...
... tone from which the sound drops abruptly ; twice it climbs back quickly ; then through a whole line it modulates but gradually upward , until at last the three clear high notes emerge , followed , as in the beginning , by a drop ...
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... tone . One may be sure that thoughts on death cannot be enriched by similes dealing with rosebuds , that any serious subject must contain no metaphors filled with levity . Turn such lines as into Before high - pilèd books , in charact ...
... tone . One may be sure that thoughts on death cannot be enriched by similes dealing with rosebuds , that any serious subject must contain no metaphors filled with levity . Turn such lines as into Before high - pilèd books , in charact ...
Contents
ENRICHMENT | 16 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 33 |
THE MECHANICS OF POETRY | 49 |
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accented alliteration anapestic Antony assonance beauty beginning blank verse breath cadence CALIFORNIA LIBRARY called cesura chapter Charmian choices Cleopatra cloud consonants couplet dark dead death delight discussion doth dreams earth effect Elegy elements emotion enrichment epic EXERCISE expression eyes feeling flowers free verse give harmony hath heart heaven heroic couplet iambic pentameter idea Iliad John Brown's Body language light lines long day wanes look lyric means metaphor meter metrical mind mood moon nature never night o'er onomatopoetic Paradise Lost passage phrase poem poet poet's poetic poetry prose reader rhyme rhythm rhythmic seems selection sense sestet Shakespeare sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speech spondees stanzas stars stressed sweet syllables symbolic thee thine things thou thought tion tone trochaic verse voice vowel wind words