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 19
... foot to de- scribe the rhythmic norm of poetic lines , then the foot consists of one stressed syllable and one or two unstressed syllables . The poetic line in a more or less regular composition , traditionalists would maintain ...
... foot to de- scribe the rhythmic norm of poetic lines , then the foot consists of one stressed syllable and one or two unstressed syllables . The poetic line in a more or less regular composition , traditionalists would maintain ...
Page 20
... foot , an " ascent " from a relatively unstressed syllable to a relatively stressed one . The term is useful only if ... foot divisions do not neces- sarily correspond to word divisions . Actually , the foot is rather like a musical bar ...
... foot , an " ascent " from a relatively unstressed syllable to a relatively stressed one . The term is useful only if ... foot divisions do not neces- sarily correspond to word divisions . Actually , the foot is rather like a musical bar ...
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... foot to grab the reader . In line 2 the spondaic substitution in the fourth position implies and enacts the slowness of the seawave as it withdraws back upon itself , gathering force by accumulation like a coil spring to shoot itself up ...
... foot to grab the reader . In line 2 the spondaic substitution in the fourth position implies and enacts the slowness of the seawave as it withdraws back upon itself , gathering force by accumulation like a coil spring to shoot itself up ...
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