Pattern and Variation in Poetry

æsthetic alliteration anapestic assonance back vowels beat beauty Blanchisseuse breath cæsura consonance couplet death detail dimeter effect emotion end-stop English poetry euphony eyes fancy feel free verse front vowels give hear heptameter hexameter iambic imaginative perception instinct interval Keats language light literal material meaning ment meter mind monotony movement musical natural never notion number of syllables o'er onomatopoeia organic ratio overtone passage passion pattern and variation pattern line pattern of recognition pause pentameter perceived perfection phonetic pleasure poem poet poetic expression prose cadences prose stress prosody quatrain rationalistic reader refrain regular repetition rhyme rhythmic rhythms of recognition rhythms of technique scheme sense of pattern simple recognition song sonnet sort soul sound stanza stars subconscious sweet syllables symbols technical tetrameter thee things thou tion tree trimeter tropeic truth unaccented unit varied vowels whole wind words