http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/elongationof-of-syllables-verse The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/my-life-withstood-yellow-rose <p>My relationship to poetry took a sharp turn for the worse the day I learned that Emily Dickinson's poetry could be recited to the tune of the &quot;Yellow Rose of Texas.&quot;  (This observation is far from original, and there are scores of other tunes that work as well for the Dickinsonian canon for reasons that are well explained elsewhere, but the moment in which this unfortunate coupling occurred to me was nonetheless a shock to my system.)</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/my-life-withstood-yellow-rose">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/my-life-withstood-yellow-rose#comments alternate lyrics elongationof of syllables in verse emily dickinson meter Preface to the Lyrical Ballads rhyme the aesthetic function of verse Wordsworth&#039;s poetic theory yellow rose of texas http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/554 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:40:28 -0800 Robin Valenza 554 at http://arcade.stanford.edu