10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEROIC STANZA»
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Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form
elegiac stanza composed of four five-stress lines, rhyming alternately; similar to
the heroic stanza, but less varied in rhythm and quieter in tone. - Habbie stanza
see Burns stanza. - heroic stanza composed of four five-stress lines, rhyming ...
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Dictionary of Poetic Terms
See Heroic CouPlet and Heroic Stanza. heroic quatrain: See Elegiac Stanza.
heroic stanza a verse composed of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming aabb,
or, as in Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, rhyming abab:
The ...
Jack Elliott Myers, Don C. Wukasch, 2003
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The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics
... 290 Heroic octave, 97, 193, 193, 263, 264 Heroic rispetto, 97 Heroic sestet, 96,
251, 282 Heroic sonnet, 98, 193 Heroic stanza, 95, 193, 264 Heroics, 94, 95, 101
, 193 Herrick, Robert, 126, 186-87, 227-28 Hexameter, 43 , 194 Hexastich, 194, ...
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The Poet Without a Name: Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History
... Gray's four-line stanza of alternating rhymes, which came to be regarded as the
"elegiac stanza" in the eighteenth century (partly, no doubt, as a result of the
Elegy itself), was often referred to as the "heroic stanza" during the seventeenth.
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Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
Of higher artistic quality are the "Icelanders' sagas," such as the 13th-century
Grettis saga and Njdlssaga, dealing with native Icelandic families. heroic stanza
or heroic quatrain In poetry, a rhymed quatrain in heroic verse with rhyme
scheme ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1995
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Poetry for All Seasons: Poems, Forms and Styles
... Stanza The Envelope Stanza In Memorium Stanza Long Measure Quaternion
Short Meter Sicilian Quatrain Shichigon-Zekku Rendondilla Rubaiyat (Rubaa-ey)
Heroic Stanza Venus and Adonis Stanza Kyrielle Nostradamus The significance
...
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From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and ...
Duneiaa', by Alexander Pope, 75 Dutch poetry during the seventeenth century,
17, 8 ' Dyer, Sir Edward, a friend of Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney, 14.5 Elegy
in a Counhj/ Churchyard, use of the four-line heroic stanza by Thomas Gray in ...
(Tennyson) The most significant quatrain form outside of ballad stanza is the so—
called 'heroic quatrain' or 'heroic stanza', a five—stress iambic quatrain rhymed
abab which is sometimes referred to as the 'elegiac stanza' after its use in ...
John Strachan, Richard Terry, 2011
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Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature
... the first using a single rhyme through all of its 13 lines, and the second
amalgamating the classical heroic line with the English "heroic" stanza
associated with kingship, rhyme royal.7' There is no obvious reason for using a
hexameter line for ...
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Edmund Spenser: A Bibliographical Supplement
Sp and Fairfax, the " great improvers of the heroic stanza," lack the polish found
in pseudo-Rowley. 10. XXXIV (1809). 368n. Sp's stanza and its relation to
Chaucer. 11. XLV (1814). 46, 278. Byron and the Sp stanza. 12. British Review
XII ...
Dorothy F. Atkinson, 1937
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Thug, rapist, poetic visionary: the contradictory Earl of Rochester
When Larman refers to 'The Disabled Debauchee' having a 'parody of the form of the heroic stanza', one needs to ask how this 'parody' differs ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 14»
