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 63
... English poetry is for iambic or occasionally anapestic movements rather than for trochaic or dactylic . 3. Most English poetry seems to shape itself in lines of moderate length , lines with a strong propensity toward an uneven number of ...
... English poetry is for iambic or occasionally anapestic movements rather than for trochaic or dactylic . 3. Most English poetry seems to shape itself in lines of moderate length , lines with a strong propensity toward an uneven number of ...
Page 65
... English poetry has had no difficulty in casting off these other equally powerful characteristics of Old English verse . Whatever the degree to which the modern iambic pentameter line " remembers " the stress scheme of Old English ...
... English poetry has had no difficulty in casting off these other equally powerful characteristics of Old English verse . Whatever the degree to which the modern iambic pentameter line " remembers " the stress scheme of Old English ...
Page 68
... English poetry - which furnishes the base for Renaissance and later developments in Modern English . MODERN ENGLISH ( c . 1500– ) : Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries : Three facts are important in Renaissance prosody : ( 1 ) the ...
... English poetry - which furnishes the base for Renaissance and later developments in Modern English . MODERN ENGLISH ( c . 1500– ) : Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries : Three facts are important in Renaissance prosody : ( 1 ) the ...
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