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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... accentual - syllabic . In this third metrical system , both the accents and the syllables are measured and numbered , and the mensuration is often con- ceived of in terms of feet , that is , conventional patterns or units of stressed ...
... accentual - syllabic . In this third metrical system , both the accents and the syllables are measured and numbered , and the mensuration is often con- ceived of in terms of feet , that is , conventional patterns or units of stressed ...
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... syllabic regularity in Fitzgerald's lines - each line has ten syllables - as well as the more or less regular placement of stresses suggests that the stanza is written in accentual - syllabic meter , and that hence it is appropriate to ...
... syllabic regularity in Fitzgerald's lines - each line has ten syllables - as well as the more or less regular placement of stresses suggests that the stanza is written in accentual - syllabic meter , and that hence it is appropriate to ...
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... accentual , accentual - syllabic , and syllabic verse with equal facility . But even such engaging American experiments as the " spatial ca- dences " of E. E. Cummings and the cadenced syllabism of Marianne Moore have stimulated no ...
... accentual , accentual - syllabic , and syllabic verse with equal facility . But even such engaging American experiments as the " spatial ca- dences " of E. E. Cummings and the cadenced syllabism of Marianne Moore have stimulated no ...
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