Eras & Modes in English Poetry

1,000 lines Measure abstract active adjectival adjectives aesthetic ballad basic beauty Blake Blake's blank verse bright called characteristic classical mode clausal cloud Coleridge Collins complex cosmic couplets Cowley dark descriptive divine Donne tradition Dryden early eighteenth century Eliot emotional emphasis English poetry epithets example extreme feeling force forms hand heart heaven Hopkins human Jonson Keats language look lyrical Lyrical Ballads major materials metaphor metaphysical metaphysical poets Milton modern narrative nature night nineteenth century normative nouns Odes onomatopoetic Ovid participial passion Patrick Spence pattern pentameter phrasal Pindaric poem poetic poets Pope praise Pre-Raphaelite predicative proportioning rhyme River Duddon romantic satire scene seems sense sentence structure Songs sonnet sort soul sound Spenser stanzas stress style sublime sweet Swinburne symbol T. S. Eliot thou thought Tiriel Tower poems verbs verse vocabulary Waller Wartons whole wild words Wordsworth wrote Yeats Yeats's