Vincent Millay begins with an apostrophe: "O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!/Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!/Thy mists that roll and rise!" Words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea. An example of antithesis is "To err is human, to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The anapest is the reverse of the dactyl.Ī figure of speech in which words and phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other. Some famous examples of alliteration are tongue twisters such as She sells seashells by the seashore and Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.Ī metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one long (or stressed), as in seventeen and to the moon. The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words.
The name probably comes from a medieval romance about Alexander the Great that was written in 12-syllable lines.
In the word poetry, the accent (or stress) falls on the first syllable.Ī line of poetry that has 12 syllables. The prominence or emphasis given to a syllable or word.
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