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 127
... form is one invented for a single poetic occasion . Clearly all fixed forms have begun as nonce forms and have managed to prevail into history because in their shapes and in the conventions of their dynamics they have implied a version ...
... form is one invented for a single poetic occasion . Clearly all fixed forms have begun as nonce forms and have managed to prevail into history because in their shapes and in the conventions of their dynamics they have implied a version ...
Page 149
... fixed forms ; although accumulations of three quatrains are popular , the con- ventions of such arrangements attach to the quatrain rather than to any twelve - line conception . And in English we have no fixed stanzaic form longer than ...
... fixed forms ; although accumulations of three quatrains are popular , the con- ventions of such arrangements attach to the quatrain rather than to any twelve - line conception . And in English we have no fixed stanzaic form longer than ...
Page 151
... fixed forms or a meter of grid and variation . Only seven poems use end - rhyme in any way , usually near - rhyme or ... forms as analogous in some ways to the wing collar , the poems in Halpern's anthology are not quite like the tee ...
... fixed forms or a meter of grid and variation . Only seven poems use end - rhyme in any way , usually near - rhyme or ... forms as analogous in some ways to the wing collar , the poems in Halpern's anthology are not quite like the tee ...
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