An Analysis of the English Poems of St. Thomas More

A. W. Reed Adew alliteration anaphora ballad Boke of Fortune caesura Chyldhod Cupyde death Deth diction effect Elizabeth Elizabeth of York emotional English poems epanodos euery example fact Fame feminine rhymes figure Fortune's frere friar gives hath haue Henry VII honour humanist hyperbaton iambic pentameter Ibid interest John Picus Lady Fortune Latin lines literary London loue lyfe man's Manhod masculine rhyme Maugry meaning structure medieval meri iest meter mind More's More's English myght mynde myne Myrandula neuer Nyne pageauntes pattern person personified Pico Pico's play poet poetical poetry propertees prosopopoeia pryde Queen R. W. Chambers Rastell Renaissance rhetorical rhyme royal stanzas rhythm ruful lamentacion says scheme second stanza sentence Sir Thomas sixteenth century sound structure theme Thomas More's thou thynges trochee tropes trust in fortune Tudor twelue weapons verses voice William Rastell words writing wyse young youth