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 25
... Frost's " Out , Out- " ; here the caesuras are prevailingly medial and astonishingly unvaried : No one believed ... Frost suggests by this reminiscence of formal caesura prac- tice is that a domestic rural disaster is being raised to the ...
... Frost's " Out , Out- " ; here the caesuras are prevailingly medial and astonishingly unvaried : No one believed ... Frost suggests by this reminiscence of formal caesura prac- tice is that a domestic rural disaster is being raised to the ...
Page 101
... Frost is one who has per- ceived that American idiom calls for special metrical treatment , but in working out that ... Frost's line from " Birches , " • Kicking his way down through the air to the ground , never fails to give me ...
... Frost is one who has per- ceived that American idiom calls for special metrical treatment , but in working out that ... Frost's line from " Birches , " • Kicking his way down through the air to the ground , never fails to give me ...
Page 103
... Frost's technical achievement here when we realize that the effect of a triple rhythm is merely an illusion : no trisyllabic substitution has in fact taken place - the line is a strict decasyllable in harmony with all the other lines ...
... Frost's technical achievement here when we realize that the effect of a triple rhythm is merely an illusion : no trisyllabic substitution has in fact taken place - the line is a strict decasyllable in harmony with all the other lines ...
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