Poems and PoetsDavid Aloian Edgar Allan Poe ; Robert Frost ; Alfred Edward Housman ; William Butler Yeats. |
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... sound effects , qualities that the prose lacks . In this poem which describes the swift riding of three horsemen , the music produces excitement and gives something of the ur- gency the riders must have felt . The next chapter will ...
... sound effects , qualities that the prose lacks . In this poem which describes the swift riding of three horsemen , the music produces excitement and gives something of the ur- gency the riders must have felt . The next chapter will ...
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... sound is much like the sound of the word buzz . The line the seas did seethe , which is a good example of assonance , is also an ex- ample of onomatopoeia . The words sound like the boiling hiss of water on a beach . Another ...
... sound is much like the sound of the word buzz . The line the seas did seethe , which is a good example of assonance , is also an ex- ample of onomatopoeia . The words sound like the boiling hiss of water on a beach . Another ...
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... sound and all of them emphasize the idea of falling or decaying . Each pair of rhyme words , gold - hold , flower - hour , leaf - grief , day - stay , tells the story of passing things . These sound combinations illustrate how important ...
... sound and all of them emphasize the idea of falling or decaying . Each pair of rhyme words , gold - hold , flower - hour , leaf - grief , day - stay , tells the story of passing things . These sound combinations illustrate how important ...
Contents
RHYTHM RHYME AND SOUND EFFECTS | 21 |
The Creation of Beauty | 43 |
SIMILES METAPHORS AND SYMBOLS | 69 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman ballads beauty bells bird breath bright Copyright cried Danny Deever dark daughter dead dear death door doth dream earth eternal eyes face fall father fell fire flower free verse grass Gunga Din hand head hear heard heart heaven horse Housman iambic John Henry JOHN KEATS lady lake Lawd leaves light live look Lord lover meaning metaphor meter moon moonlight morning mother never night o'er Ogden Nash poem poet poetry prose raven rhyme rhythm RICHARD ARMOUR Robert Frost sail shadow shine sing sleep smile song Sonnet soul sound stand stanza stars stone stood sweet syllables T. S. ELIOT tell thee things thou thought tone tree Twas voice W. H. AUDEN walk wild William Butler Yeats WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings words young