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... nouns : " stake " , " foam " , and on expressive verbs : " sway " , " wavers " , " choke " , " rolls " , as well as on muted vowel - sounds to convey the quiet requiem effect : " softly and humbly " , " sob " , " clubbing " . The last ...
... nouns : " stake " , " foam " , and on expressive verbs : " sway " , " wavers " , " choke " , " rolls " , as well as on muted vowel - sounds to convey the quiet requiem effect : " softly and humbly " , " sob " , " clubbing " . The last ...
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... nouns ) of the final stanza : " native town " ; " wooden faces " ; " thatched doorway " . The development of the poem is within the simple framework of the beach setting , the mystical experience and the hurried retreat to the native ...
... nouns ) of the final stanza : " native town " ; " wooden faces " ; " thatched doorway " . The development of the poem is within the simple framework of the beach setting , the mystical experience and the hurried retreat to the native ...
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... noun possessing noun : voice of the wind ; this can be compressed : the wind's voice ; the sun's bright gong . ( c ) adjective : thundering hooves ; saddleback mountain ; a doggy look . ( d ) verb : he hammered the point home ; pin a ...
... noun possessing noun : voice of the wind ; this can be compressed : the wind's voice ; the sun's bright gong . ( c ) adjective : thundering hooves ; saddleback mountain ; a doggy look . ( d ) verb : he hammered the point home ; pin a ...
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A. D. Hope Aborigine abstract Ancient Mariner Australian basic Brindabella Bullocky cadence Captain Quiros character closed couplet colour context contrast dark death descriptive despair diction Douglas Stewart effect emotion Essay on Memory example experience expressive verbs feeling Fifth Day final stanza Five Bells fuses futile Geoffrey Dutton Henry the Navigator Homeric simile Hope's human iambic imagery imagination impression James McAuley Judith Wright landscape Lane light of home line stanza rhymed linked lyrical ballad McAuley's metaphor metaphysical modern Moorebank mystical near-rhyme Nigger's Leap night NOTES ON SIX nouns past pattern Persons from Porlock phrase poet's poetic poetry precise present prosy quatrain R. D. FitzGerald reflection regeneration rhymed in various rhythm romantic Sailing to Byzantium satire sense sestet SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS simple SIX VOICES Slessor Snow Gum sometimes Standardisation Sydney symbol theme three poems tide Tomb of Heracles visual W. B. Yeats whereas whole poem Wind words