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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... Beginning my studies the first step pleas'd me so much , The mere fact consciousness , these forms , the power of ... beginnings of lines , the most common kind of repetition we find in free verse , create an effect called , formally ...
... Beginning my studies the first step pleas'd me so much , The mere fact consciousness , these forms , the power of ... beginnings of lines , the most common kind of repetition we find in free verse , create an effect called , formally ...
Page 121
... beginning of line 13 , although the force of the earlier Petrarchan convention is such that it oc- casionally visits the Shakespearean form and leaves its mark as a slight turn at the beginning of the third quatrain or somewhere within ...
... beginning of line 13 , although the force of the earlier Petrarchan convention is such that it oc- casionally visits the Shakespearean form and leaves its mark as a slight turn at the beginning of the third quatrain or somewhere within ...
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... beginning the next most interesting , and the end the most inter- esting . The pattern of natural emphasis in a sentence - or in any temporal unit constituting a delimited segment of time - looks like this : 2 3 1 with " 1 ...
... beginning the next most interesting , and the end the most inter- esting . The pattern of natural emphasis in a sentence - or in any temporal unit constituting a delimited segment of time - looks like this : 2 3 1 with " 1 ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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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