An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature

accent anacrusis anapestic antistrophe ballad beauty blank verse Browning's cadence called catalectic cesura chapter character characteristic classical commonly couplet critics dactylic discussion drama elaborate elements emotion English poetry English Verse epic essay example expression fact familiar Fancy feeling feet five-stress foot forms of poetry four-stress human iambic metre iambic verse iambus images imagination imitation language length less light syllable 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 rhythmical units rime scheme romantic secondary stress sense Shakspere Shakspere's Shelley's song sonnet sounds speech spondee stanza forms stressed syllable strophes structure style suggested te-tum Tennyson's tercet theme things tion tragedy trochaic trochee unity unstressed utterance variation vers de société vowel words Wordsworth writers