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Polyphonic prose   /pˌɑlˌɪfˈɑnɪk proʊz/   Listen
Polyphonic prose

noun
1.
A rhythmical prose employing the poetic devices of alliteration and assonance.





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"Polyphonic prose" Quotes from Famous Books



... traced upon the ivory keys of his instrument and the world was richer for a poet. Chopin is not only the poet of the piano, he is also the poet of music, the most poetic of composers. Compared with him Bach seems a maker of solid polyphonic prose, Beethoven a scooper of stars, a master of growling storms, Mozart a weaver of gay tapestries, Schumann a divine stammerer. Schubert, alone of all the composers, resembles him in his lyric prodigality. Both ...
— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker
... her varieties of free verse and polyphonic prose (cf. her study of Paul Fort and the preface to Can Grande's Castle). Choose several poems in which you think the free verse form is especially adapted to the content and draw conclusions as to the problems of development ...
— Contemporary American Literature - Bibliographies and Study Outlines • John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert


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