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 56
... action , as in Book IV of Paradise Lost , where speaking jointly to their Maker , Adam and Eve comment on the heavy fecundity of Eden : this delicious place For us too large , where thy abundance wants Părtá / kĕrs , ănd / ŭncrópt ...
... action , as in Book IV of Paradise Lost , where speaking jointly to their Maker , Adam and Eve comment on the heavy fecundity of Eden : this delicious place For us too large , where thy abundance wants Părtá / kĕrs , ănd / ŭncrópt ...
Page 125
... action implicit in the formal disproportion of their two parts , an action of complication and resolution , or of something like it . Indeed , the two parts of " Pied Beauty , " despite their presum- ably meaningful difference in weight ...
... action implicit in the formal disproportion of their two parts , an action of complication and resolution , or of something like it . Indeed , the two parts of " Pied Beauty , " despite their presum- ably meaningful difference in weight ...
Page 156
... action of the whole poem consists of three sequential sub- ordinate actions : remembrance of the flower ; remembrance of the maid ; and a justification for inviting each to enter the one poem , that is , an assertion of the poem's unity ...
... action of the whole poem consists of three sequential sub- ordinate actions : remembrance of the flower ; remembrance of the maid ; and a justification for inviting each to enter the one poem , that is , an assertion of the poem's unity ...
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