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Page 138
... sing , hey ding a ding a ding : Sweet lovers love the spring . Between the acres of the rye , With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonny no , These pretty country fools would lie , In spring time , the only pretty ring time , When birds do ...
... sing , hey ding a ding a ding : Sweet lovers love the spring . Between the acres of the rye , With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonny no , These pretty country fools would lie , In spring time , the only pretty ring time , When birds do ...
Page 174
... sing , ' Welcome , proud lady . ' QUESTIONS 4 brave to the church 9 12 16 1. What comparisons are drawn between a wedding and a funeral ? 2. How is the particular stanza form of this poem useful to the poet in setting things side by ...
... sing , ' Welcome , proud lady . ' QUESTIONS 4 brave to the church 9 12 16 1. What comparisons are drawn between a wedding and a funeral ? 2. How is the particular stanza form of this poem useful to the poet in setting things side by ...
Page 361
... Sing on , sing on you gray - brown bird , Sing from the swamps , the recesses , pour your chant from the bushes , Limitless out of the dusk , out of the cedars and pines . Sing on dearest brother , warble your reedy song , Loud human ...
... Sing on , sing on you gray - brown bird , Sing from the swamps , the recesses , pour your chant from the bushes , Limitless out of the dusk , out of the cedars and pines . Sing on dearest brother , warble your reedy song , Loud human ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats