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In poetry, a dropped line is a line which is broken into two lines, but where the second part is indented to the horizontal position it would have had as an unbroken line. For example, in the poem "The Other Side of the River" by Charles Wright , the first and second lines form a dropped line, as do the fourth and fifth lines: [ 1 ]
Like father, like son; Little pitchers have big ears; Little strokes fell great oaks; Little things please little minds; Live and let live; Live for today, for tomorrow never comes; Live to fight another day (This saying comes from an English proverbial rhyme, "He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day")
The poem was created as part of a friendly competition in which Shelley and fellow poet Horace Smith each created a poem on the subject of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II under the title of Ozymandias, the Greek name for the pharaoh. Shelley's poem explores the ravages of time and the oblivion to which the legacies of even the greatest are subject.
A little neglect may breed mischief... For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,
Sonnet 60 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the form's typical rhyme, abab cdcd efef gg and is written a type of poetic metre called iambic pentameter based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
The method is to take a well-known poem . . . without reference to the author or to his other work, analyse it stanza by stanza and line by line, and extract, squeeze, tease, press every drop of meaning out of it that one can. It might be called the lemon-squeezer school of criticism. . . .
These quotes about depression, from celebrities like Michael Phelps and Beyonce, explain the mental illness and can offer a sense of hope. 99 quotes about depression, from people who have been ...
"Locksley Hall" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of Poems. It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor upon coming to his childhood home, an apparently fictional Locksley Hall, though in fact Tennyson was a guest of the Arundel family in their stately home named Loxley Hall, in Staffordshire, where he spent much of his time writing whilst on ...