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... stanza . Beginning with a brief but most effective description of the cold outside , in two slow - moving lines giving the impression of a whole landscape in snow and driving wind , he moves at once , in the third short line , to the ...
... stanza . Beginning with a brief but most effective description of the cold outside , in two slow - moving lines giving the impression of a whole landscape in snow and driving wind , he moves at once , in the third short line , to the ...
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... stanza that love " brightens the tenebrific scene " we are not in the least surprised . There is a partial recovery in the final verse , but the poem never really gets back into its stride after the seventh stanza . The first seven stanzas ...
... stanza that love " brightens the tenebrific scene " we are not in the least surprised . There is a partial recovery in the final verse , but the poem never really gets back into its stride after the seventh stanza . The first seven stanzas ...
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David Daiches. The stanza form , not uncommon in older Scottish poetry , is handled with great sureness . The key to the stanza is the turn on the fifth line , where the repetition of the rhyme of the fourth and second lines turns the ...
David Daiches. The stanza form , not uncommon in older Scottish poetry , is handled with great sureness . The key to the stanza is the turn on the fifth line , where the repetition of the rhyme of the fourth and second lines turns the ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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