Poetic Meter and Poetic Form"This book might be required reading for all students of poetry because it makes wonderfully clear the relationship of metrics to the formal achievement of meaning ... Fussell's command of his subject and his never-failing common sense will guarantee ... enrichment for anyone who takes the time to read this book."--Frank Lentricchia, Jr., PoetryDonated by Prabu Vasan. |
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Page 82
... Whitman , the subtle rhythmic patterns discernible in sequences of free - verse lines have been likened to sea - waves , it being widely assumed in Whitman's time that the " natural " rather than the artificial and conventional is what ...
... Whitman , the subtle rhythmic patterns discernible in sequences of free - verse lines have been likened to sea - waves , it being widely assumed in Whitman's time that the " natural " rather than the artificial and conventional is what ...
Page 84
... ( Whitman's Song of the Open Road ) and the unexpected value of the lowly ( Song of Myself , Section 5 ; W. C. Williams , Spring and All ) , revealed by informal but precise scrutiny of common particulars . Again , the way free verse ...
... ( Whitman's Song of the Open Road ) and the unexpected value of the lowly ( Song of Myself , Section 5 ; W. C. Williams , Spring and All ) , revealed by informal but precise scrutiny of common particulars . Again , the way free verse ...
Page 85
... Whitman and Pound . Consider Whitman's frequent presentation of an amphibrachic foot ( ~~ ) at the ends of his long free - verse lines , where he seems at pains to re- mind the reader rhythmically of the sound of the classical heroic ...
... Whitman and Pound . Consider Whitman's frequent presentation of an amphibrachic foot ( ~~ ) at the ends of his long free - verse lines , where he seems at pains to re- mind the reader rhythmically of the sound of the classical heroic ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
Copyright | |
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accentual accentual-syllabic anapestic beginning blank verse caesura CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ century classical conventions Copyright critical CRUZ The University device effect elements emotional emphasis English poetry enjambment Essay example experience expressive Faber feet fixed forms foot formal free verse free-verse poem Frost heroic couplet iambic pentameter illusion imply initial trochee kind language logical meter metrical variations metrist modern musical nature number of syllables octave Old English organization pattern perhaps permission Petrarchan sonnet poet poet's Pope principle prose prosodic pyrrhic quatrain reader regularity reinforce rhetorical rhyme scheme rhythmical SANTA CRUZ scansion seems sense sestet shape Song spondaic spondaic substitution spondee sprung rhythm stanza stanzaic form stichic stressed syllables strophic structure suggest technical technique tends tercet terminal trochee tetrameter couplets texture thing Thom Gunn thou tion traditional trochaic trochaic substitution trochee turn University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA unstressed versification W. H. Auden white space Whitman's William words Yeats