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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... device . While in Old English verse the invariable medial caesura had been used to separate each line into two half - lines and thus to assert the regularity of the struc- ture , in Modern English the caesura is more often used as a device ...
... device . While in Old English verse the invariable medial caesura had been used to separate each line into two half - lines and thus to assert the regularity of the struc- ture , in Modern English the caesura is more often used as a device ...
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... device to reinforce effects of weight or difficulty or slowness . The only thing mysterious about the device , actually , is the way it seldom fails to delight the reader . To trace some of its uses from the mid- sixteenth century to ...
... device to reinforce effects of weight or difficulty or slowness . The only thing mysterious about the device , actually , is the way it seldom fails to delight the reader . To trace some of its uses from the mid- sixteenth century to ...
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... device to reinforce an illusion of sudden and even awkward motion : I com to pluck your Berries harsh and crude , And with forc'd fingers rude , Shátter / your leaves before the mellowing year . At the end of the same poem an illusion ...
... device to reinforce an illusion of sudden and even awkward motion : I com to pluck your Berries harsh and crude , And with forc'd fingers rude , Shátter / your leaves before the mellowing year . At the end of the same poem an illusion ...
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