Verse Writing: A Practical Handbook for College Classes and Private Guidance, with ExercisesMacmillan, 1917 - 123 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ALFRED NOYES alternate rhymes amateur verse writer anacrusis artist better called COMPANY Publishers 64-66 congruity dactylic English Composition examples EXERCISE expression feel feminine endings flower foot four four-line stanzas free theme free verse heart heptameter Iambic pentameter Iambic tetrameter incongruity language light masculine ending mean measure ment meter mist night o'er Petrarchan sonnet phrase pieces of four pieces of twenty poem poet poetic license poetry practice prose composition Publishers 64-66 Fifth quatrain with alternate rhyme scheme rhyming couplets rhyming dictionary rhythm rules sake seems sense Serenade shrill sometimes sonnet soul SPECIMENS speech stanza forms stop-gap stressed syllable student style sub-stressed suggested technique TENNYSON tetrameter quatrain teur thee thesaurus things THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH thou wilt thought tion Trochaic tetrameter trochees twenty lines unrhymed unstressed verse form verse writing verse-writing class versification vowel WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH words Write two pieces
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Página 86 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's...
Página 77 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 77 - For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Página 81 - JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed: How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags — were they purple, his heart had been proud ! We that had loved him so, followed him...
Página 83 - And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate.
Página 63 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.
Página 65 - I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Página 77 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Página 66 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Página 79 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...