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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... feet , are frequently used for substitution : spondee ; spondaic pyrrhic húm - drúm the sea / son of / mists Iambic and anapestic feet are called - misleadingly - ascending or rising feet ; trochaic and dactylic are known as descending ...
... feet , are frequently used for substitution : spondee ; spondaic pyrrhic húm - drúm the sea / son of / mists Iambic and anapestic feet are called - misleadingly - ascending or rising feet ; trochaic and dactylic are known as descending ...
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... feet . " For that matter , " as Hugh Kenner says , " you will never encounter a round face , though the term is helpful ; and if the idea of a circle had never been defined for you , you might not be clearly aware of how a round face ...
... feet . " For that matter , " as Hugh Kenner says , " you will never encounter a round face , though the term is helpful ; and if the idea of a circle had never been defined for you , you might not be clearly aware of how a round face ...
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... feet , it is not hard to see that the prevailing or dominant foot of the stanza is iambic , and that the lines are based on a recurrent pattern of five feet . We thus designate the meter as iambic pentameter . Terms for other line ...
... feet , it is not hard to see that the prevailing or dominant foot of the stanza is iambic , and that the lines are based on a recurrent pattern of five feet . We thus designate the meter as iambic pentameter . Terms for other line ...
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