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Inglés (US)
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Can you explain the grammatical structure of lines 586, 587?
Can you explain the grammatical structure of lines 586, 587?
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25 feb 2015
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- Inglés (US)
In poetry, sometimes sentence and phrase structures are changed around to help with rhyming or meter.
I think usually English is spoken in SVO order, but it's not uncommon to use other structures. You can see the verb 'decree' at the end of the phrase where usually it would come before the objects.
The author could have said "kublai khan decreed a stately pleasure dome etc..." But apparently he didn't think it sounded good.
I'm way out of my knowledge area here...
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- Inglés (US)
It's poetry. It's a famous poem called ""Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment"
Notice the last words of each line rhyme.
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- Inglés (US)
In poetry, sometimes sentence and phrase structures are changed around to help with rhyming or meter.
I think usually English is spoken in SVO order, but it's not uncommon to use other structures. You can see the verb 'decree' at the end of the phrase where usually it would come before the objects.
The author could have said "kublai khan decreed a stately pleasure dome etc..." But apparently he didn't think it sounded good.
I'm way out of my knowledge area here...
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- Japonés
Did you learn that poem in high school or somewhere?
- Inglés (US)
Not personally, but I heard of it.
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