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"Christmas Tree" by James Merrill
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Topics discussed in this episode include:
-New Critical Rococo
-The Changing Light at Sandover
-The Ingram Merrill Foundation
-Shape poems
-"Pindarick Odes"
-"Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth
-"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
-"Santa Baby" by Eartha Kitt
-What do Christmas trees and dying men have in common?
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List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
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