An Introduction to Poetry for Students of English Literature

accent anapestic antistrophe artistic ballad beauty blank verse Browning's cadence called catalectic cesura chapter character characteristic commonly couplet critics dactylic discussion drama elaborate elegy element emotion English poetry English Verse epic epic poetry Essay example expression fact familiar Fancy feeling feet five-stress foot forms of poetry four-stress human iambic verse imagination imitation language length less light syllable London lyrical Lyrical Ballads lyrical poetry matter means ment metrical form Milton Milton's Prosody modern narrative natural number of syllables objects passage pause pleasure poems poet poetical principle Professor prose quatrain reader reason regular represent rhetorical rhythmical rime scheme romantic sense Shakspere Shakspere's Shelley's song sonnet sounds speech spondee stressed syllable strophes structure style suggested syllables te-tum Tennyson's tercet term theme Theodore Watts things time-intervals tion tragedy trochaic trochee unity unstressed utterance variation vers de société vowel words Wordsworth writers