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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... caesura , or extrametrical pause , within the lines . The caesura here , posi- tioned after the fourth syllable , near the middle of the line , is called a medial caesura . If it should occur near the beginning of the line , it is ...
... caesura , or extrametrical pause , within the lines . The caesura here , posi- tioned after the fourth syllable , near the middle of the line , is called a medial caesura . If it should occur near the beginning of the line , it is ...
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... caesura , but for quite special effects of antithetical wit and irony : See Sin in State , || majestically drunk ; Proud as a Peeress , || prouder as a Punk ; Chaste to her Husband , || frank to all beside , A teeming Mistress , || but ...
... caesura , but for quite special effects of antithetical wit and irony : See Sin in State , || majestically drunk ; Proud as a Peeress , || prouder as a Punk ; Chaste to her Husband , || frank to all beside , A teeming Mistress , || but ...
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... caesura occurs regularly in the medial position , we are dealing with a different kind of verse from that in which caesura place- ment is varied and unpredictable : which is to say that the whole metrical contract between poet and ...
... caesura occurs regularly in the medial position , we are dealing with a different kind of verse from that in which caesura place- ment is varied and unpredictable : which is to say that the whole metrical contract between poet and ...
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