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 27
... force of the abstract metrical pattern which presumably lies behind the actual rhythms of the words . As Joseph Malof has said , " One kind of energy in poetic language comes from the wrestling of abstract patterns with actual prose ...
... force of the abstract metrical pattern which presumably lies behind the actual rhythms of the words . As Joseph Malof has said , " One kind of energy in poetic language comes from the wrestling of abstract patterns with actual prose ...
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... force of the two equally stressed syllables of a spondee is made to underlie and support the " joint force " of the elements of physical beauty : ' Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call , But thě / jóint fórce , / and full result of all ...
... force of the two equally stressed syllables of a spondee is made to underlie and support the " joint force " of the elements of physical beauty : ' Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call , But thě / jóint fórce , / and full result of all ...
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... forces are depicted overcoming Satan's : Drove them / before him Thunder - struck , pursu'd With terrors and with ... force of the reversal in headlong , line 7 ) , the trochees underlying the active verbs at the beginnings of lines ...
... forces are depicted overcoming Satan's : Drove them / before him Thunder - struck , pursu'd With terrors and with ... force of the reversal in headlong , line 7 ) , the trochees underlying the active verbs at the beginnings of lines ...
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