ENGL 3022 : Study Guide For Exam One
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The last line of the first stanza establishes a refrain, which is repeated, or subtly varied, as the last line of each stanza: blank verse, a verse form using unrhymed iambic pentameter lines. Blank verse has no stanzas, but is broken up into uneven units determined by sense rather than form. (wordsworth!) Lyric poem: a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines, from the book: Abba, abab, abcb: rhyme royal, a stanza of seven iambic pentameter lines, rhyming ababbcc. Spenserian stanza: developed by spenser for the faerie queene, nine iambic lines, the first eight are pentameters, followed by a hexameter. "i have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. "- wordsworth"s definition of poetry: three versions of the same work, published three different times, ordinary language used so his work would last throughout time, wrote a lot about peasants, children, outcasts, criminals, and mad women.
