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... words a repetition of stress at regular intervals ? Such words may be said to contain a regular rhythm within themselves , and they tend to give that rhythm to any utterance in which they are used . Some of them , because of the ...
... words a repetition of stress at regular intervals ? Such words may be said to contain a regular rhythm within themselves , and they tend to give that rhythm to any utterance in which they are used . Some of them , because of the ...
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... words , which are powerful in what they suggest . One period of English literature , that known as the Neo- classic , believed that there was a class of words which were essentially poetic , and another class which were too low for use ...
... words , which are powerful in what they suggest . One period of English literature , that known as the Neo- classic , believed that there was a class of words which were essentially poetic , and another class which were too low for use ...
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... words and word orders actually were in a poem . Subsequent chapters have striven to explain the reasons for the words and word orders being as they were in poetry . It may now be added that one perceives all that an author has meant by ...
... words and word orders actually were in a poem . Subsequent chapters have striven to explain the reasons for the words and word orders being as they were in poetry . It may now be added that one perceives all that an author has meant by ...
Contents
ENRICHMENT | 16 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 33 |
THE MECHANICS OF POETRY | 49 |
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