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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... anapest ( anapaest ) ; anapestic trochee ; trochaic dactyl ; dactylic děstróy intĕrvéne tópsy mérrily And the following , although obviously not encountered as base feet , are frequently used for substitution : spondee ; spondaic ...
... anapest ( anapaest ) ; anapestic trochee ; trochaic dactyl ; dactylic děstróy intĕrvéne tópsy mérrily And the following , although obviously not encountered as base feet , are frequently used for substitution : spondee ; spondaic ...
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... anapests re- placing iambs , and the two trisyllabic substitutions swell the line to twelve instead of ten syllables ... anapestic trimeter in a poem which will prove to be prevailingly iambic , Frost reverses completely to a dactylic ...
... anapests re- placing iambs , and the two trisyllabic substitutions swell the line to twelve instead of ten syllables ... anapestic trimeter in a poem which will prove to be prevailingly iambic , Frost reverses completely to a dactylic ...
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... anapestic foot ) can convey an illusion of speed or lightness . Here Lippi is allud- ing to some young girls and indicating their effect on him : Scarce had they turned the corner when a titter Like the skip / ping of ráb / bits by móon ...
... anapestic foot ) can convey an illusion of speed or lightness . Here Lippi is allud- ing to some young girls and indicating their effect on him : Scarce had they turned the corner when a titter Like the skip / ping of ráb / bits by móon ...
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