How Poetry Works: The Elements of English Poetry

A. E. Housman alliteration anthology audience ballad beginning Beowulf bring carol century Chaucer Collected Poems concrete poetry consonant sounds conventional conveyed coral couplet CRUZ The University cultural duplet e. e. cummings effect English poetry English sonnet example five-stress lines fixed forms genre hear isochronous kind language of poetry linguistic listener literary look Lord Randal lyric meaning measure medieval metaphor metre metrical Middle English night occurs Old English opening oral parallels particular perceived performance phonemic patterns phrase poem's poet's poetic poets popular printed pronounced pronunciation quatrain reader regular reprinted by permission rhyme rhyme-scheme rhythmic pattern rime royale Robert semantic shadow Shakespeare silent stress sing singlet Song speech speech-sounds Stevie Smith stressed syllable syllables symbols syntax T. S. Eliot thee thing thou traditional triplet unvoiced consonants usually verbs verse voiced vowel W. B. Yeats weak syllables word-games words