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 49
... common in all Eng- -lish poetry . It is less common in medial positions . And it is very uncommon in the terminal position . Substitution in each position tends to transmit its own unique kind of effects . In the first position trochaic ...
... common in all Eng- -lish poetry . It is less common in medial positions . And it is very uncommon in the terminal position . Substitution in each position tends to transmit its own unique kind of effects . In the first position trochaic ...
Page 60
... common , certain accustomed ways of responding to certain traditional symbolic stimuli . Now that we have considered the most common sorts of metri- cal variations , we should look at the scheme of overstressing practiced by Gerard ...
... common , certain accustomed ways of responding to certain traditional symbolic stimuli . Now that we have considered the most common sorts of metri- cal variations , we should look at the scheme of overstressing practiced by Gerard ...
Page 133
... common mnemonic verses , nursery rhymes , rhymed saws and proverbs and admonitions , hymns , and popular songs . The unsophisticated person's experience of poetry is almost equivalent to his experience of quatrains , which tends to ...
... common mnemonic verses , nursery rhymes , rhymed saws and proverbs and admonitions , hymns , and popular songs . The unsophisticated person's experience of poetry is almost equivalent to his experience of quatrains , which tends to ...
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