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95 example of line in poetry

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example of line in poetry 19/01/2020?? 2. William Blake, ? Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright ?. The opening line from Blake?s 1794 poem ?The Tyger?, these four arresting words in strong trochaic metre immediately set the scene ? There are so many more wonderful lines of poetry we could have included, but we?ve run out of time for now. If you have a favourite line of verse, we?d love to hear it in the comments below! ? Where the lines are broken in relation to the ideas in the poem it affects the feeling of reading the poetry. For example, the feeling may be jagged or startling versus soothing and natural, which can be used to reinforce or contrast the ideas in the poem. Lines are often broken between words, but there is certainly a great deal of poetry where at least some of the lines are broken in the middles of words: this can be a device for achieving inventive rhyme schemes. Example #2 The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ?The Eagle? is a short poem, but nonetheles...