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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... emotion or shade of emotion to be expressed . " John Hollander has spoken of " the metrical contract " which every poet undertakes with his reader from the first few words of a poem . Given the nature of each metrical contract , the ...
... emotion or shade of emotion to be expressed . " John Hollander has spoken of " the metrical contract " which every poet undertakes with his reader from the first few words of a poem . Given the nature of each metrical contract , the ...
Page 60
... emotion - charged natural speech , sprung rhythm's effectiveness lies in projecting a tone of seriousness , frankness , and intimate emotional involvement . Like 60 POETIC METER PART ONE.
... emotion - charged natural speech , sprung rhythm's effectiveness lies in projecting a tone of seriousness , frankness , and intimate emotional involvement . Like 60 POETIC METER PART ONE.
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... emotional experience than a mock - academic débat . The Petrarchan and the Shakespearean are the most common sonnet forms in English . Edmund Spenser introduced another , but few poets have taken to it . The Spenserian sonnet is struc ...
... emotional experience than a mock - academic débat . The Petrarchan and the Shakespearean are the most common sonnet forms in English . Edmund Spenser introduced another , but few poets have taken to it . The Spenserian sonnet is struc ...
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