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Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 18   AIL 1723 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Romantic Forms

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The idea

The ode, the ballad and the sonnet all returned, and blank verse came back for long meditative poems. Unit eight defined all four. The couplet did not disappear but it stopped being the default, which is a formal marker of the change.

In practice

Ode, ballad, sonnet, blank verse.

Where people slip

The couplet stopped being default.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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