The Rolling English Road, the Glossary
"The Rolling English Road" is one of the best-known poems by G. K. Chesterton.[1]
Table of Contents
16 relations: Alliteration, Bannockburn, Beachy Head, Birmingham, Brighton Palace Pier, Byway (road), G. K. Chesterton, Glastonbury, Goodwin Sands, Heptameter, Kensal Green Cemetery, Napoleon, River Severn, Rye, East Sussex, Stanza, The Flying Inn.
- 1914 poems
- Poems by G. K. Chesterton
Alliteration
Alliteration is the repetition of syllable-initial consonant sounds between nearby words, or of syllable-initial vowels, if the syllables in question do not start with a consonant.
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Bannockburn
Bannockburn (Allt a' Bhonnaich) is an area immediately south of the centre of Stirling in Scotland.
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Beachy Head
Beachy Head is a chalk headland in East Sussex, England.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.
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Brighton Palace Pier
The Brighton Palace Pier, commonly known as Brighton Pier or the Palace Pier, is a Grade II* listed pleasure pier in Brighton, England, located in the city centre opposite the Old Steine.
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Byway (road)
A byway in the United Kingdom is a track, often rural, which is too minor to be called a road.
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G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.
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Glastonbury
Glastonbury is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low-lying Somerset Levels, south of Bristol.
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Goodwin Sands
Goodwin Sands is a sandbank at the southern end of the North Sea lying off the Deal coast in Kent, England.
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Heptameter
Heptameter is a type of meter where each line of verse contains seven metrical feet.
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Kensal Green Cemetery
Kensal Green Cemetery is a cemetery in the Kensal Green area of North Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in London, England.
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Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
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River Severn
The River Severn (Afon Hafren), at long, is the longest river in Great Britain.
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Rye, East Sussex
Rye is a town and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England, from the sea at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede.
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Stanza
In poetry, a stanza (from Italian stanza) is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation.
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The Flying Inn
The Flying Inn is a novel by English writer G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1914.
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See also
1914 poems
- 1914 in poetry
- Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
- After Apple-Picking
- For All We Have And Are
- For the Fallen
- Kaisarion (poem)
- Mending Wall
- Platero and I
- Satires of Circumstance
- Sonetos de la Muerte
- The Dead (poem)
- The Motor Bus
- The Poem of the End
- The Rolling English Road
- The Soldier (poem)
- Zang Tumb Tumb
Poems by G. K. Chesterton
- A Ballade of Suicide
- Lepanto (poem)
- The Ballad of the White Horse
- The Rolling English Road