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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... Critical Implications of Metrical Analysis 90 PART TWO / Poetic Form 7 Structural Principles : The Example of the Sonnet 109 8 The English Stanzas 127 9 Some Critical Implications of Stanzaic Forms 154 10 Conventions and the Individual ...
... Critical Implications of Metrical Analysis 90 PART TWO / Poetic Form 7 Structural Principles : The Example of the Sonnet 109 8 The English Stanzas 127 9 Some Critical Implications of Stanzaic Forms 154 10 Conventions and the Individual ...
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... critical perception and ultimately for critical judgment that scansion can justify itself . The sort of per- ception that scansion makes possible by translating sound into visual terms can be illustrated in the Rubaiyat stanza with ...
... critical perception and ultimately for critical judgment that scansion can justify itself . The sort of per- ception that scansion makes possible by translating sound into visual terms can be illustrated in the Rubaiyat stanza with ...
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... critical principles . In the appraisal of poetry an axiom perhaps generally accepted is that , given a poetic ... critical principles : The meter of a poem , no matter how extrinsically discovered and tradi- tionally exploited by the ...
... critical principles . In the appraisal of poetry an axiom perhaps generally accepted is that , given a poetic ... critical principles : The meter of a poem , no matter how extrinsically discovered and tradi- tionally exploited by the ...
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