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... stanza of Part IV , variants of which you find in many poets of the period such as this of Donne , with a similar five - and six - beat ending : Running it never runs from us away , But truly keeps his first , last , everlasting day ...
... stanza of Part IV , variants of which you find in many poets of the period such as this of Donne , with a similar five - and six - beat ending : Running it never runs from us away , But truly keeps his first , last , everlasting day ...
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... stanza not often used successfully in English , which takes its name from the Greek poet Sappho . That is to say , Eliot uses a four - beat , basically dactylic , line , with a shorter two - beat line to close the stanza . It is a very ...
... stanza not often used successfully in English , which takes its name from the Greek poet Sappho . That is to say , Eliot uses a four - beat , basically dactylic , line , with a shorter two - beat line to close the stanza . It is a very ...
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... stanza - structure , leads to some odd scansions : as for instance with the line ' Their holy vigil ' , which he accents as ' Théir holy / vígil — giving it the label of ' an adonic ' ( in classical terminology ) , instead of the more ...
... stanza - structure , leads to some odd scansions : as for instance with the line ' Their holy vigil ' , which he accents as ' Théir holy / vígil — giving it the label of ' an adonic ' ( in classical terminology ) , instead of the more ...
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